Gui-Qiang G. Chen is a Professor at the Mathematical Institute , University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Keble College. He serves as Director of the Oxford Centre for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (OxPDE) , focusing on nonlinear PDEs, hyperbolic conservation laws, and their applications to fluid dynamics, geometry, and mathematical physics. His research spans Partial Differential Equations , Nonlinear Analysis , Shock Wave Theory , and Free Boundary Problems , with recent work on stochastic PDEs , geometric PDEs , and numerical analysis . His publications cover topics like transonic shocks , hypersonic flow , and compressible fluid dynamics . Gui-Qiang Chen has co-authored 15+ major publications since 2007, including research monographs on shock reflection-diffraction and Prandtl-Meyer reflection configurations , and his work appears in leading journals like Annals of Mathematics and Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics . Awards and fellowships include: 2024 Polya Prize (London Mathematical Society) Doctor of Science (Oxford, 2024) Member of Academia Europaea (2022) Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2020) Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2017) SIAM Fellow (2013) Chinese National Prize of Sciences (1990) He supervises DPhil/PhD students in nonlinear PDEs and related fields, and his research is supported by Oxford's mathematical infrastructure and international collaborations.








