Gui-Qiang George Chen#
| Membership Number: | 6099 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/gui-qiang.chen |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5146-3839 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Director, Oxford Centre for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (OxPDE), University of Oxford, UK
- 2014 - present Director, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Applications, University of Oxford, UK
- 2009 - present Statutory Professor in the Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PDE Chair) & Professorial Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford, UK
- 2008 - 2009 Senior Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Norway
- 2003 & 2014 Member, Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1994 - present Associate Professor (1994–96), Full Professor (1996–2010) & Adjunct Professor (2010-Present), Northwestern University, USA
- 1994 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- 1990 - 1991 & 2011 Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), University of California-Berkeley, USA
- 1989 - 1999 Assistant Professor of Mathematics (1989–94) & Adjunct Appointment (1994–99), University of Chicago, USA
- 1987 - 1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Entropy analysis
- Weak convergence methods
- Nonlinear partial differential equations of mixed type
- Measure-theoretical analysis
- Analysis of partial differential equations
- Mathematical physics
- Free boundary problems
- Nonlinear analysis
- Mathematical theory of shock waves and other nonlinear waves
- Hyperbolic conservation laws
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Pólya Prize by the London Mathematical Society, "for his deep research into nonlinear partial differential equations, and in particular his rigorous theoretical analysis of the equations of gas dynamics, especially those involving transonic flows"
- 2020 (elected) Fellow, European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), Belgium
- 2017 (elected) Fellow, American Mathematical Society (AMS), USA
- 2014 (elected) Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), UK
- 2013 - 2014 Turner-Kirk Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2012 (elected) Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), USA
- 2011 The Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Prize, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, USA
- 2009 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Royal Society, UK
- 2008 The 2008 DiPerna Memorial Lectures in Mathematics, University of California-Berkeley, USA
- 2007 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, Germany
- 1991 - 1997 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, USA
- 1998 The 1998 State Natural Sciences Award, China
- 1989 - 1991 Argonne-University of Chicago Fellow in Mathematics, USA
- 1988 The Chinese Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics, China
