| Alon Chen | |
| Native Name: | אלון חן |
| Birth Place: | Israel |
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Weizmann Institute of Science (PhD)| occupation = neuroscientist| years_active = | era = | employer = Weizmann Institute of Science| organization = | agent = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | height = | television = | title = President| term = | predecessor = Daniel Zajfman| successor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | family = | callsign = | awards = | website = | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }}Alon Chen (; born 1970) is an Israeli neuroscientist and the 11th President of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Chen was born in Israel.[1] [2] He is a neuroscientist.[2]
He attended Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BSc in life sciences, magna cum laude, 1995, and MBA, 2001), and the Weizmann Institute of Science (PhD, magna cum laude, 2001).[2] [3] On a Rothschild scholarship and a Fulbright scholarship, Chen conducted postdoctoral research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, from 2001 to 2005.[2] [4] [5]
In 2005 Chen returned to the Weizmann Institute of Science as a senior scientist in the Neurobiology Department and received an Alon Fellowship from the Israel Council for Higher Education.[2] [6] In 2012, he became an associate professor, and in 2017 a full professor.[2]
In 2013, Chen was appointed a director in the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, and head of the joint Weizmann-Max Planck Laboratory for experimental neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurogenetics.[7] [2] [8] He heads the Neurobiology Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and is an adjunct professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University Faculty of Medicine in Munich.[2]
Chen is the 11th President of the Weizmann Institute of Science.[9] [10] He took office in December 2019, succeeding Daniel Zajfman.[9] [10] [11]
His research includes an investigation of the biological brain processes that regulate and are activated by mental stress and anxiety.[2] [1] This includes an investigation by Chen of brain mechanisms that are connected to anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and metabolic syndromes.[2] [1] [12] [13] [14]