Professor Pisin Chen received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the National Taiwan University in Taipei, and his PhD in theoretical particle physics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has been a member of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford University since 1986. He joined the faculty of the Department of Physics and the Graduate Institute of Astrophysics, National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2007. In addition, he has been the inaugural Director of the NTU Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (LeCosPA) since 2008.

Professor  Chen is an internationally recognized physicist with numerous contributions in various fields of physics, including high energy particle physics, plasma physics, beam physics, and cosmology and astrophysics. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1994. He is two-time recipient of the international Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition Award, in 1995 and 2001. He was awarded the Outstanding Scholar Fellowship by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education in 2006. He was awarded the Y.T. Lee Chair Professorship in 2007 by Taiwan’s Outstanding Scholarship Foundation. He has been the NTU C.C. Leung Chair Professor of Cosmology since 2008.

Aside from being an outstanding physicist, Prof. Chen is a proliferate “renaissance man”. He has been an ardent amateur artist since his youth. His latest exhibition was held at Dr. Sun Yet-Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, in 2003, together with members of the fine-arts group with which he has been a member since his teenage. Another passion of his is music. He has been the founding Music Director and Conductor of the North Peninsula Philharmonic Chorus in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1990 to 2007. Under his directorship and conductorship, NPPC has staged numerous highly acclaimed concerts during the past two decades. He is also an amateur playwright. Together with Prof. Wei-Hsin Sun, he transcribed a popular Chinese novel, Blue and Black, into a play that had been put on stage in Los Angeles, Taipei and San Francisco, and was highly praised by the original author, Wang Lan, as the best rendition of his novel.

As a devoted educator, Prof. Chen is highly motivated in promoting science education around the world, especially in the under-developed regions.