Dr. Bin Chen is a Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He studies solar flares and coronal mass ejections—the solar system’s largest explosions and major drivers of space weather—using radio and multi-wavelength observations to understand their underlying physical processes. He also develops radio instrumentation for solar and space weather research.

He is Principal Investigator of the Owens Valley Solar Arrays (OVSA), an NSF-funded community facility comprising the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA) and the solar and space weather programs of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory’s Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA). He leads the NSF-funded EOVSA-15 upgrade, which will expand EOVSA to 15 antennas and enable broadband imaging spectropolarimetry.

His honors include the AAS Solar Physics Division’s Karen Harvey Prize (2023), the NSF CAREER Award (2017), and the NASA/UCAR Jack Eddy Fellowship (2013). He is the Vice Chair of the AAS Solar Physics Division (August 2026–present) and previously served on its committee (2019–2021). He also served on the Sun and Heliosphere Panel of the 2024–2033 Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey and directed NJIT’s Applied Physics Graduate Program from 2020 to 2026. He has secured several million dollars in NSF and NASA research funding as PI.

Inquiries about Ph.D. and postdoctoral opportunities are welcome by email.

Download his Curriculum Vitae.