Feng Chen is currently a Distinguished Professor at the School of Physics, Shandong University, China. He served as the Dean of the School of Physics from 2013 to 2021. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Shandong Normal University in 1997 and his Doctor of Science (PhD) degree from Shandong University in 2002. After completing his doctoral dissertation, he joined Shandong University as a Lecturer. He subsequently spent two years at Clausthal University of Technology in Germany (2003-2005) as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004 and to Professor in 2006 at Shandong University.

His research interests encompass integrated photonics, lasers, nonlinear optics, 2D materials, plasmonic nanoparticles, topological photonics, ion beams, and ultrafast laser writing. He is particularly active in the scientific community focused on optical waveguides within optical materials produced by ultrafast lasers and energetic ion beams. He has authored one book, five book chapters, and published over 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals, which have garnered more than 11,000 citations. He also holds 10 patents. Since 2014, he has been recognized as one of the Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier China for ten consecutive years (2014-2024). 

Feng Chen is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP UK), SPIE, and Optica (formerly OSA), as well as a senior member of the Chinese Optical Society (COS). He has served as an Associate Editor for Optical Engineering (2010-2022), an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (since 2015), the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Optics Letters (since 2021), and an Editorial Board Member for Physics (since 2020). Additionally, he has served as a subcommittee/committee member for major conferences such as CLEO, CLEO-Europe, and CIOP.