陈鸣研究员，男，1957年生，博士。1981年毕业于成都地质学院，1987年获成都地质学院硕士学位,1992年获中国科学院地球化学研究所博士学位，1993-2000年在德国马普核物理研究所和马普化学研究所进行了多年的合作研究。1998年获国家杰出青年基金，2002年入选中国科学院百人计划。现任广州地化所极端环境地质和地球化学研究室主任、广东省矿物物理与矿物材料重点实验室付主任、中国地质学会矿物专业委员会副主任委员。2002年获广东省科学技术一等奖, 2003年获全国留学回国人员先进个人称号和留学回国人员成就奖，2004年获广东省五一劳动奖章。从事宇宙矿物学、高压矿物学、陨石和陨石坑冲击变质等领域的研究工作。提出通过岩石和矿物天然冲击变质效应研究地球深部物质组成和结构的学术思想，发现了多种超高压新矿物和超高压矿物组合，在小行星和陨石撞击事件温度压力历史和动力学提出了新的见解。在国内外学术刊物发表论文80余篇。

1 Ming Chen, Jinfu Shu, Ho-kwang Mao (2008) Xieite, a new mineral of high-pressure FeCr₂O₄ polymorph. Chinese Science Bulletin 53(21): 3341-3345. 

2 Ming Chen, Xiande Xie. (2008) Two distinct assemblages of high-pressure liquidus phases in shock veins of the Sixiangkou meteorite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 43(5): 823-828.

3 Ming Chen. (2008) Impact-derived features of the Xiuyan meteorite crater. Chinese Science Bulletin 53(3): 392-395.

4 Ming Chen, Jing Chen, Xiande Xie, and Jun Xu. (2007) A microstructural investigation of natural lamellar ringwoodite in olivine of the shocked Sixiangkou chondrite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 264: 277-283.

5 Ming Chen, Hui Li, Ahmed El Goresy, Jing Liu, Xiande Xie. (2006) Fracture-related intracrystalline transformation of olivine to ringwoodite in the shocked Sixiangkou meteorite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 41 (5): 731-737.

6 Deqiang Wang and Ming Chen (2006) Shock-induced melting, recrystallization and exsolution in plagioclase from the martian lherzolitic shergottite GRV 99027. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 41 (4): 519-527.

7 Ming Chen, Xiande. Xie, Ahmed El Goresy (2004) A shock-produced (Mg,Fe)SiO₃ glass in the Suizhou meteorite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 39 (11): 1797-1808.

8 Ming Chen, Ahmed El Goresy, Philippe Gillet (2004) Ringwoodite lamellae in olivine: Clues to olivine-ringwoodite phase transition mechanisms in shocked meteorites and in subducting slabs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101 (42): 15033-15037.

9 Ming Chen, Ahmed El Goresy, Dan Frost, and Philippe Gillet (2004) Melting experiments of a chondritic meteorite between 16 and 25 GPa: Implication for Na/K fractionation in a primitive chondritic Earth’s mantle. European Journal of Mineralogy 16: 203-211.

10 Ming Chen, Jinfu Shu, Ho-kwang Mao, Xiande Xie, and Russell J. Hemley (2003) Natural occurrence and synthesis of two new post-spinel polymorphs of chromite. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100 (25): 14651-14654.

11 Ming Chen, Jinfu Shu, Xiande Xie, Ho-kwang Mao (2003) Natural CaTi₂O₄-structured FeCr₂O₄ polymorph in the Suizhou meteorite and its significance in mantle mineralogy. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 67: 3937-3942.

12 Xiande Xie, Michelle E. Minitti, Ming Chen, Ho-kwang Mao, Deqiang Wang，Jinfu Shu and Yingwei Fei (2003) Tuite, g-Ca₃(PO₄)₂ : a new mineral from the Suizhou L6 chondrite. European Journal of Mineralogy 15: 1001-1005.

13 Xiande Xie, M. Minitti, Ming Chen, Ho-kwang Mao, Deqiang Wang, Jinfu Shu, Yingwei Fei (2002) Natural high-pressure polymorph of merrillite in the shock melt veins of the Suizhou L6 chondrite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66: 2439-2444.

14 Ming Chen, Xie Xiande, Deqiang Wang, Sichao Wang (2002) Metal-troilite-magnetite assemblage in the shock veins of Sixiangkou. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66: 3143-3149.

15 Xie Xiande, Chen Ming, Wang Deqiang (2001) Shock-related mineralogical features and P-T history of the Suizhou L6 chondrite. European Journal of Mineralogy 13: 1177-1190.

16 Xie Xiande, Chen Ming, Dai Chengda, El Goresy A., Gillet P. (2001) A comparative study of naturally and experimentally shocked chondrites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 187: 345-356.

17 Ming Chen, Ahmed El Goresy (2000) The nature of maskelynite in shocked meteorites: not diaplectic glass but a glass quenched from shock-induced dense melt at high-pressure. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 179: 489-502.