Chen Kezheng


Chen Kezheng is currently President of Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China.
He is a materials engineer.

Early Life

Chen studied at Shandong University, China and graduated with a Masters degree in Materials in 1989.
In 1997, he received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering from Dalian University of Technology, China.

Career

From 2000 to 2005, he conducted postdoc work at the University of Florida, Department of Physics.
He then joined Qingdao University of Science and Technology, where be later became Dean of
School of Materials Engineering. In 2016, he was appointed Deputy President of QUST.
In September 2019, he was appointed President of QUST.

Awards

He has received several national invention technology awards, along with Shandong provincial technology
awards.