Li-Chyong Chen

Li-Chyong Chen (; born March 12, 1959) is a Taiwanese applied physicist. She is a professor of physics at National Taiwan University, where she is a distinguished research fellow at the Center for Condensed Matter Sciences and the director of the Center of Atomic Initiative for New Materials.

Early life and education Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 12, 1959, the youngest of eight children. Her father was a businessman and her mother was a homemaker. Chen was raised in a suburb of Taipei and graduated from Taipei First Girls' High School. Her doctoral dissertation, completed under applied scientist Frans Spaepen, was titled, "Disordered quasicrystal". Her graduate professors at Harvard also included materials scientist David Turnbull.

In 2017, Chen was awarded the Outstanding Award of the Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science Awards.

Personal life Chen is married to Chen Kuei-hsien,