1984年復旦大學數學系畢業,1997年在中國地震局地球物理所獲固體地球物理博士學位,在英國皇家學會博士後基金(Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowship)資助下1999年12月至2000年12月赴國際地震中心開展協作研究,2006年8~11月任東京大學地震研究所訪問教授。1984年8月至2011年9月在中國地震預測研究所(原分析預報中心,2004年改為現名)工作。2011年10月起任中國科學院地質與地球物理研究所研究員。
1997年和2003年分別入選中國地震局"跨世紀科技人才培養系統工程"和"新世紀優秀人才百人計畫",2006年獲國務院政府特殊津貼。1997年獲得第五屆中國青年科技獎,1998年獲傅承義青年科技獎(中國地球物理學會青年優秀論文獎),2000年獲國際地震中心的優秀服務獎牌(Recognises the Service)、5次獲中國地震局科技進步獎和防震減災優秀成果獎。他還曾榮獲國家地震局科技進步三等獎1項,獲國家地震局科技進步二等獎2項,三等獎2項。2009年入選“新世紀百千萬人才工程”國家級人選。
52. Xu, Xiang, Wenbin Chen, Qi-Fu Chen, Jin Cheng, 2015. New regularized algorithms based on the spectral method for solving deformable layer tomography, Applicable Analysis
51. Legendre, C. P., Q.-F. Chen, L. Zhao, 2014. Lithospheric Structure beneath the East China Sea Revealed by Rayleigh-wave Phase Velocities. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
50. Legendre, C. P., F. Deschamps, L. Zhao,S. Lebedev, Q.-F. Chen, 2014, Anisotropic Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps of eastern China, J. Geophys.Res. Solid Earth
49. Liu, Lanbo, Qi-Fu Chen, Wenjun Wang, Eric Rohrbach, 2014, Ambient noise as the new source for urban engineering seismology and earthquake engineering: a case study from Beijing metropolitan area. Earthquake Science
44. Wu, Jing, Zhigang Peng, Weijun Wang, Xuan Gong, Qi-fu Chen, Chunquan Wu, 2012, Comparisons of dynamic triggering near Beijing, China following recent large earthquakes in Sumatra, Geophysical Research Letters
43. Hua, Cheng, Jin Cheng, Qi-Fu Chen, 2012, A viscoelastic model for time-dependent simulating analysis of the Wenchuan earthquake fault, Journal of Math-for-Industry,
42. Le Li, Qi-fu Chen, Fenglin Niu, Jinrong Su,2011,Deep slip rates along the Longmen Shan fault zone estimated from repeating microearthquakes, J. Geophys. Res
41. Zhongjie Zhang, Qifu Chen, Zhiming Bai, Yong Chen and José Badal, 2011. Crustal structure and extensional deformation of thinned lithosphere in Northern China, Tectonophysics
40. Chunquan Wu, Zhigang Peng, Weijun Wang, Qi-Fu Chen, 2011, Dynamic triggering of shallow earthquakes near Beijing, China, Geophys. J. Int.
38. Qifu Chen, Le Li, Fenglin Niu, Jinrong Su. 2011, Large slip rate detected at the seismogenic zone of the 2008 MW7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, Earthquake Science
36. Peng, Z., W. Wang, Q.-F. Chen, T. Jiang, 2010, Remotely triggered seismicity in northeast China following the 2008 Mw7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, Earth Planets Space
35. Qi-fu Chen, Kelin Wang, 2010, The 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake and Earthquake Prediction in China,Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am.. (中譯稿:陳棋福,王克林,2010,2008年汶川地震與中國的地震預報,世界地震譯叢
34. Tao, J., Z. Peng, W. Wang, Q.-F. Chen, 2010, Remotely triggered seismicity in Continental China by the 2008 Mw7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am
29. 陳棋福, 劉瀾波, 王偉君, Eric Rohrbach,2008,利用地脈動探測北京城區的地震動場地回響,科學通報
28. F. Niu, Q.-F. Chen, 2008, Seismic evidence for a distinctly anisotropic innermost inner core, Nature Geoscience
27. 陳棋福,鄭大林,車時,黃蔚北主編,2008,中國震例,北京:地震出版社
26. Juan Li, Qi-fu Chen, Fenglin Niu, 2008. Topography of the 660-km discontinuity beneath northeast China: Implications for a retrograde motion of the subducting Pacific slab, Geophys. Res
25. Le Li, Qi-Fu Chen, Xin Cheng, Fenglin Niu, 2007. Spatial clustering and repeating of seismic events observed along the 1976 Tangshan fault, North China, Geophys. Res
7. Chen Qi-fu, Chen Yong, Liu Jie, Chen Ling, 1997. Quick and approximate estimation of earthquake loss based on macroscopic index of exposure and population distribution, Natural Hazards
6. 陳棋福,石耀霖,1997,基於遺傳算法的分類體系在地震預報中的套用探索,地球物理學報
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4. Chen Qi-fu, Shi Yaolin, Wang Huimin, 1996. A simple earthquake prediction classification system based on genetic algorithm,Journal of Earthquake Prediction Research
3. Chen Yong, Chen Qi-fu, 1995. Completeness analysis of the historical earthquake catalogue in China, Earthquake Research in China