Dr Pengcheng Chen recieved her BEng in Polymer Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. She graduated with a DPhil in Polymer Chemical and Physics from Zhejiang University in 2015.

Pengcheng joined Jiangnan University, China in 2015 and became associate professor in 2019. She is now working as an Academic Visitor in the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.