About Yong Chen’s work
From April to October 1997, Yong Chen held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong. At the time, Chen was based at the State Seismological Bureau.
Biography
Yong Chen graduated from the Department of Geophysics of the University of Science and Technology of China in 1965, and researched at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States in 1978-80. Chen served as the director of the Institute of Geophysics of the China Earthquake Administration from 1982 to 1985, served as the Deputy Director of the China Earthquake Administration from 1985 to 1996. Chen has taught at the University of Science and Technology of China and the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering of Nanjing University.
He is engaged in seismological and experimental petrophysics research and its potential applications in environment, energy, and disaster mitigation. In the 70s, he researched on petrophysics under high temperature and high pressure, developed laser holography technology to measure rock deformation. In the 90s, he focused on earthquake prediction and seismic hazard research. Using seismology, engineering science and economics, he edited the Global Earthquake Hazard Map and Global Earthquake Hazard Prediction Map. He also studied seismic radar and urban geophysics.