Xin Chen is an Associate Professor at the School of Physics, Xidian University. He studied Materials Physics and Chemistry at South China Normal University, China, and graduated as an ME in 2013. He then joined the research group of Prof. Wieslaw Krolikowski at the Research School of Physics and Engineering (RSPE, now renamed as RSP), Australian National University (ANU). He received his PhD degree in 2018 from the same university. His research interests include integrated optics, laser-matter interactions, and nonlinear optics.