Xie Chen, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology![A portrait photo of Xie Chen.](https://simonsfoundation.imgix.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/13165612/CHEN_0225_simons_211014-squarecrop.jpg?auto=format&w=120&h=120&fit=crop&crop=faces&q=90)
Xie Chen is a professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology. Chen obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 and was a Miller research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining Caltech in 2014. Chen is a condensed matter theorist studying emergent phenomena in strongly interacting quantum many-body systems. She received the New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation in 2020.