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Assistant Professor Quan Chen

Quan Chen

Assistant Professor
Affiliation: BIMSA
Research Field: Operator Algebra, Quantum Symmetry
Office: A1-M04
Email: chenquan@bimsa.cn
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/quanchenmath/home

Biography

Quan Chen has been an assistant professor at BIMSA since June 2026. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Vanderbilt University, where he began his position in Fall 2023 under the mentorship of Professor Dietmar Bisch. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from The Ohio State University in Spring 2023, working under the supervision of Professor David Penneys. His research interests lie in the areas of operator algebras, subfactor theory, and quantum algebra.

Research Interest

  • Tensor categories and higher categories
  • Quantum symmetries in operator algebras, especially subfactor theory and planar algebra
  • Applications of operator algebras and tensor categories on quantum physics, including quantum field theory, quantum information and quantum many-body theory.

Education Experience

  • 2017 - 2023 | The Ohio State University | Mathematics | Ph.D | (Supervisor: David Penneys)
  • 2013 - 2017 | Zhejiang University | Mathematics | B.Sc.

Work Experience

  • 2026 - -- | BIMSA | Assistant Professor
  • 2023 - 2026 | Vanderbilt University | Postdoctoral fellow

Publication

  • [1] Q Chen, G Ferrer, B Hungar, D Penneys, S Sanford, Manifestly unitary higher Hilbert spaces, Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 113(5), e70532 (2026)
  • [2] Q Chen, Gauging the Categorical Connes' $\tilde{\chi}(M)$, arXiv, 2604.21833 (2026)
  • [3] Q Chen, R Hernández Palomares, C Jones, K-theoretic classification of inductive limit actions of fusion categories on AF-algebras, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 405(3), 83 (2024)
  • [4] Q Chen, C Jones, D Penneys, A categorical Connes’ $χ(M)$, Mathematische Annalen, 389(3), 2051-2121 (2024)
  • [5] Q Chen, Standard-lattices, rigid C∗-tensor categories, and (bi) modules, Doc. Math, 29, 247-341 (2024)
  • [6] Q Chen, Higher symmetries in operator algebras, The Ohio State University (2023)
  • [7] Q Chen, RH Palomares, C Jones, D Penneys, Q-system completion for C⁎ 2-categories, Journal of Functional Analysis, 283(3), 109524 (2022)
  • [8] Q Chen, D Penneys, Q-system completion is a 3-functor, arXiv, 2106.12437 (2021)
Update Time: 2026-06-18 18:00:09