Speaker

Colloquium Speaker: Dr. Bin Chen

Associate Professor, NJIT

Dr. Bin Chen (陈彬) is an associate professor of physics in the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research and member of the Institute for Space Weather Sciences at NJIT. Prior to that, he held an appointment as an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He earned a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Virginia in 2013. He is a recipient of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2017) and the NASA/UCAR Jack Eddy Fellowship (2013). He currently serves as a Committee Member of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society. Chen's research mainly focuses on solar high-energy phenomena using radio and multi-wavelength observations.