Bin Chen

Professor, Department of Physics
Dr. Bin Chen is an Associate Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Research in his group focuses on solar flares and coronal mass ejections, the largest explosions in the solar system that can affect our Earth and near-Earth environment, known as Space Weather. He develops novel radio observing techniques and utilizes multi-wavelength observations to study the physical processes underlying these catastrophic energy release events. He co-leads the NJIT solar radio group (with Prof. Dale Gary), which operates the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array.

He was the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2017, and the NASA/UCAR Jack Eddy Fellowship in 2013. He served as a Committee Member of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society (2019–2021). At NJIT, he serves as the Director of the Applied Physics Graduate Program (2020–present). His work receives funding from NSF and NASA.
Ph.D.; University of Virginia-Main Campus; Astronomy; 2013
M.S.; University of Virginia-Main Campus; Astronomy; 2010
M.S.; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Astrophysics; 2008
B.S.; Peking University; Physics; 2005
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Associate Professor of Physics, August 2019 - August 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Physics, January 2016 - July 2019
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrosphysics
Astrophysicist, August 2014 - December 2015
2018 CSLA Rising Star Research Award, College of Science and Liberal Arts
2016 NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
2013 NASA Living-with-a-Star Jack Eddy Fellowship, NASA
PHYS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
PHYS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
PHYS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
PHYS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
PHYS 490 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
PHYS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
PHYS 491 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
PHYS 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
PHYS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
PHYS 111: PHYSICS I
PHYS 320: ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS I
PHYS 321: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS II
PHYS 321: ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS II
PHYS 728: RADIO ASTRONOMY
PHYS 780: CURR TOPICS APPLIED PHYS
Bin Chen, Xiangliang Kong, Sijie Yu, Chengcai Shen, Xiaocan Li, Fan Guo, Yixian Zhang, Lindsay Glesener, Säm Krucker. 2024. "Energetic Electrons Accelerated and Trapped in a Magnetic Bottle above a Solar Flare Arcade." The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 971, pp. 85.
Rohit Sharma, Marina Battaglia, Sijie Yu, Bin Chen, Yingjie Luo, Säm Krucker. 2024. "Study of Particle Acceleration Using Fine Structures and Oscillations in Microwaves from the Electron Cyclotron Maser." The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 970, pp. 17.
Surajit Mondal, Andrea F. Battaglia, Bin Chen, Sijie Yu. 2024. "A Joint Microwave and Hard X-Ray Study toward Understanding the Transport of Accelerated Electrons During an Eruptive Solar Flare." The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 966, pp. 208.
Yuqian Wei, Bin Chen, Sijie Yu, Haimin Wang, Yixian Zhang, Lindsay Glesener. 2024. "Episodic energy release during the main- and post-impulsive phase of a solar flare." The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 964, pp. 174.
Ryan J. French, Sijie Yu, Bin Chen, Chengcai Shen, Sarah A. Matthews. 2024. "Doppler signature of a possible termination shock in an off-limb solar flare." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 528, no. 4, pp. 6836-6844.
Sijie Yu, Bin Chen, Rohit Sharma, Timothy S. Bastian, Surajit Mondal, Dale E. Gary, Yingjie Luo, Marina Battaglia. 2024. "Detection of long-lasting aurora-like radio emission above a sunspot." Nature Astronomy, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 50-59.
"Impulsive Solar Energetic Electron Events Observed by the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array"
October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2023.
"Measuring the density and temperature of the corona using high dynamic range low frequency images from the OVRO-LWA"
October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2023.
"OVRO Long Wavelength Array - a New Solar-Dedicated Meterwave Radio Spectral Imaging Facility"
October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2023.
"Radio CMEs in the Middle Corona: New Capabilities with the Owens Valley Long Wavelength Array"
October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2023.
"Spatially-Resolved Transport Parameters in Solar Flares"
October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2023.
"Advancing Theory and Modeling Efforts in Heliophysics"
July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2023.
"Diagnostics of Space Weather Drivers Enabled by Radio Observations"
July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2023.
"Long-Lasting Solar Coherent Radio Bursts and Implications for Solar-Stellar Connection"
July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2023.
"Particle Acceleration and Transport: New Perspectives from Radio, Optical, X-ray, and \ensuremath\gamma-Ray Observations"
July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2023.
Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033: Panel on the Physics of the Sun and Heliosphere.
Committee Member, 2022
Solar Physics Division, American Astronomical Society
Committee Member, 2019