Appointment
2022 - Present: Research Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
2020 - 2022: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Colorado, Boulder
2017 - 2020: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
Education
2010 - 2017: Ph.D. in Physics, Columbia University in the City of New York
2006 - 2010: Bachelor of Science in Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Notable Publications
Chen, A. Y., Yuan, Y., Beloborodov, A. M., et al., 2022, Relativistic Alfvén Waves Entering Charge Starvation in the Magnetospheres of Neutron Stars, The Astrophysical Journal, 929, 31
Cruz, F., Grismayer, T., Chen, A. Y., et al., 2021, Coherent Emission from QED Cascades in Pulsar Polar Caps, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 919, L4
Chen, A. Y., Yuan, Y., & Vasilopoulos, G., 2020, A Numerical Model for the Multiwavelength Lightcurves of PSR J0030+0451, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 893, L38
Chen, A. Y., Cruz, F., & Spitkovsky, A., 2020, Filling the Magnetospheres of Weak Pulsars, The Astrophysical Journal, 889, 69
Chen, A. Y., Yuan, Y., 2020, Physics of Pair Producing Gaps in Black Hole Magnetospheres II – General Relativity, The Astrophysical Journal, 895, 121
Chen, A. Y., Yuan, Y. & Yang, H., 2018, Physics of Pair Producing Gaps in Black Hole Magnetospheres, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 863, L31
Chen, A. Y. & Beloborodov, A. M., 2017, Particle-in-cell simulations of the twisted magnetospheres of magnetars, The Astrophysical Journal, 844, 133
Chen, A. Y. & Beloborodov, A. M., 2017, Electrodynamics of Axisymmetric Pulsar Magnetosphere with Electron-Positron Discharge: A Numerical Experiment, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 795, L22