Dr. Bin Chen is a Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research 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 utilizes novel radio and multi-wavelength observing techniques to study physical processes underlying these catastrophic energy release events. He is also keen in developing new radio instrumentation for solar and space weather studies.

He serves as the Principal Investigator of the Owens Valley Solar Arrays (OVSA). OVSA is an NSF-funded community facility under the Geospace Facilities Program of the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. It consists of the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA) as well as the solar and space weather aspects of the Long Wavelength Array at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO-LWA). He is currently leading a NSF-funded project (AGS-2320478) to upgrade EOVSA to EOVSA-15, which will expand it to a 15-antenna array and enable the new capability of broadband imaging spectropolarimetry.

He was the recipient of AAS Solar Physics Division’s Karen Harvey Prize in 2023, the National Science Foundation’s 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). He has recently served on the Solar & Heliophere Panel of the NASEM 2024-2033 Solar & Space Physics Decadal Survey. At NJIT, he serves as the Director of the Applied Physics Graduate Program (2020–present). His research is funded by multiple grants from NSF and NASA, totaling several million US dollars as PI.  

Inquiries on potential Ph.D. or postdoctoral positions are always welcome. Please contact him by email.

Download his Curriculum Vitae.