Liu Chen, Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy , University of California, Irvine, and an APS Fellow, received the 2008 Hannes Alfven Prize for outstanding contributions to plasma physics during the 35th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics held June 9- 13, 2008 at Crete, Greece.
His citations are as follows:
"for his many seminal works on Alfven wave physics in laboratory and space plasmas and his continuing contribution of new ideas, including: the theories of geomagnetic pulsations, Alfven wave heating, fishbone oscillations, the formulation of the nonlinear gyrokinetic equations and fundamental contributions to drift wave instabilities and turbulence"
After the award ceremony, Liu Chen delivered the Alfven Lecture titled "Alfven Waves: A Journey between Space and Fusion Plasmas".
