Dr. Yan Chen is a Chair Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, China. She received her Ph.D. in structural engineering from University of Oxford, M.S. and B. Sc. in applied mechanics from Jilin University of Technology. Her research focuses on the kinematics of mechanisms. In the interdisciplinary area among kinematics, mechanics, and structural engineering, she has set up a research field including fundamentals of kinematic theory, deployable structures, and metamaterials, as well as their applications.