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副主任、中国地质学会矿物专业委员会副主任委员。获得奖项

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。发现了中国首个陨石坑——岫岩陨石坑，填补国内在有陨石坑研究方面的空白。

在国内外学术刊物发表SCI论文60余篇，包括5篇Science，2篇PNAS，多篇Meteoritics and Planetary Science，EPSL及GCA论文。文章总被引用600余次。

Chen Ming, T.G. Sharp, A. ElGoresy, B. Wopenka, X. Xie (1996) The majorite-pyrope solid solution +magnesiowusitite: Constriants on the history of shock veins in chondrites. Science 271, 1570-1573.

T. G. Sharp, A. El Goresy, B. Wopenka, M. Chen(1999) A post-stishovite SiO2polymorph in the meteorite Shergotty: Implications for impact events. Science 284: 1511-1513.

Ming Chen, Ahmed El Goresy (1999) The nature of “maskelynite” in shocked meteorites: Notdiaplectic glass but a glass quenched from shock-induced dense melt athigh-pressure. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 34: A24.

Philippe Gillet, Ming Chen, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Ahmed El Goresy (2000) NaturalNaAlSi3O8-hollandite in the shocked Sixiangkou meteorite.Science 287: 1633-1636.

Ahmed El Goresy, Leonid Dubrovinsky,Thomas G. Sharp, Surendra K. Saxena, M.Chen(2000) A monoclinic post-stishovite polymorph of silica in theShregotty meteorite. Science 288: 1632-1634.

Ming Chen,Ahmed El Goresy (2000) The nature of maskelynite in shocked meteorites: notdiaplectic glass but a glass quenched from shock-induced dense melt athigh-pressure. Earth and Planetary Science Letters179: 489-502.

A. El Goresy,P. Gillet, Ming Chen, F. Künstler, G.Graup, V. Stähle (2001) In situ discovery of shock-induced graphite-diamondphase transition in gneisses from the Ries Crater, Germany. American Mineralogist 86: 611-621.

Ahmed El Goresy, Ming Chen,Leonid Dubrovinsky, Philippe Gillet, and Günther Graup(2001) An ultra dense polymorph of rutile with seven-coordinated titanium fromthe Ries crater.Science 293: 1467-1470.

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.

Ming Chen, Jinfu Shu, Ho-kwangMao, Xiande Xie, and Russell J. Hemley (2003) Natural occurrence and synthesis of two new post-spinel polymorphs ofchromite. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America100 (25): 14651-14654.

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

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

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

Nobuyoshi Miyajima, Ahmed ElGoresy, Catherine Dupas-Bruzek, Friedrich Seifert, David C. Rubie, Ming Chen, and Xiande Xie (2007) Ferric iron in Al-bearing akimotoitecoexisting with iron-nickel metal in a shock-melt vein in an L-6 chondrite. American Mineralogist, 92:1545-1549.

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

Chen Ming, Xiao Wansheng, Xie Xiande, Tan Dayong and Cao Yubo (2010) Xiuyan crater, China:Impact origin confirmed. Chinese Science Bulletin 55:1777-1781.

Ming Chen, Wansheng Xiao, Xiande Xie. (2010) Coesite and quartz characteristic of crystallization from shock-producedsilica melt intheXiuyan crater. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 297: 306-314.

Chen, M., C. Koeberl, et al. (2011). Planar deformation features in quartz from impact-produced polymict breccia of the Xiuyan crater, China. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 46(5): 729-736.