代表性科研项目：

1.柴北欧龙布鲁克微陆块带状石榴石年龄测定与重大变质年代约束，教育部博士点基金项目，2006-2008，负责人；

2.欧龙布鲁克微克拉通基底混合岩Hf-Pb-O同位素对地壳演化的约束，国家自然科学基金项目，2008-2010，负责人；

3.全吉克拉通残片基底早元古代片麻状花岗岩成因背景和基底地壳演化，国家自然科学基金项目，2010-2012，负责人；

4.全吉地块元古代镁铁质岩的岩石成因和对塔里木克拉通古地幔性质演化和构造演化启示，国家自然科学基金项目，2012-2015，负责人；

5.全吉地块北缘变质地体中-新元古代岩石的成因与构造演化研究（No. 2014013027）；国家自然科学基金面上项目，2014-2017.12）

6.江西婺源县1：5万清华幅和江湾幅区域地质调查，国家地质调查局区调项目，2010-2013，总工程师（总工，第二负责人）。

代表性学术论文：

1. Fanxi Liao, Lu Zhang,Nengsong Chen, Min Sun, M. Santosh, Qinyan Wang, Hassan Abdelsalam Mustafa. Geochronology and geochemistry of meta-mafic dykes in the Quanji Massif, NW China: Paleoproterozoic evolution of the Tarim Craton and implications for the assembly of theColumbiasupercontinent.Precambrian Research2014, 249, 33-56.（通讯作者）

2. Nengsong Chen, Fanxi Liao, Lu Wang, et al. Late Paleoproterozoic multiple metamorphic events in the Quanji Massif: links with Tarim and North China Cratons and implications for assembly of theColumbiasupercontinent.Precambrian Research2013, 228, 102-116.

3. Gong Songlin,Chen Nengsong, Wang Qinyan, Kusky T M, Wang Lu, Liao Fanxi.Early Paleoproterozoic Magmatism in the Quanji Massif, northeastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Platean and its Tectonic significance: LA-ICPMS U-Pb zircon age constraints.Gondwana Research, 2012,21, 152–166.（通讯作者）

4. Nengsong Chen, Songlin Gong, Xiaoping Xia, et al. Zircon Hf isotope of Yingfeng rapakivi granites from the Quanji Massif and ~2.7 Ga crustal growth.Journal of Earth Science2013,24,029–041.

5. Nengsong Chen, Lu Zhang, Min Sun, Qinyan Wang, T.M. Kusky.U–Pb and Hf isotopic compositions of detrital zircons from the paragneisses of the Quanji Massif, NW China: Implications for its early tectonic evolutionary history.Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2012, 54-55, 110-130.

6. Nengsong Chen,Songlin Gong, Min Sun, Xiaoyan Li, Xiaoping Xia, Qinyan Wang, Fuyuan Wu, Ping Xu. Precambrian evolution of the Quanji Block, northeastern margin ofTibet: Insights from zircon U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope compositions.Journal of Asian Earth Sciences,2009, 35, 367–376

7. Zhang, L., Qinyan Wang,Nengsong Chen, Min Sun, M. Santosh, Jin Ba. Geochemistry and detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopes of the paragneiss suite from the Quanji massif, SE Tarim Craton: Implications for Paleoproterozoic tectonics in NW China.Journal of Asian Earth Sciences,http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2014.05.014.（通讯作者）

8. Sun Min,Chen Nengsong, Zhao Guochun, Wilde A Simon, Ye Kai, Guo Jinghui, Chen Yi, Yuan Chao. U-Pb zircon and Sm-Nd isotopic study of the Huangtuling granulite, dabie-Sulu Belt,China: Implication for the Paleoproterozoic tectonic history of the Yangtze Craton.American Journal of Science, 2008, 308, 469-483.

9. Chen N. S., Sun M., You Z. D. and Malpas J., 1998. Well-preserved garnet growth zoning in granulite from the Dabie Mountains, central China.Journal of Metamorphic Geology,16: 213-222