My CV

Research interests

• Astrodynamics

• Mission analysis and trajectory design

• Planetary geodesy

• NanoSat engineering

Professional Experiences

• Assistant Professor, Kyushu University, 02/2021 –

• Research Affiliate, Observatoire de Paris – IMCCE, France, 04/2020 –

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Observatoire de Paris – IMCCE, France, 10/2017-04/2020

• Assistant Researcher, Eng. and Tech. Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 11/2015-08/2017

• Joint-research Fellow, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA), Japan, 04/2013-09/2015

• Trainee, École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, France, 04/2010-06/2010

Education

• Ph.D., Kyushu University, Japan, 10/2010-09/2015

• B.Eng., Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, 09/2006-08/2010

Awards

• COSPAR Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists, 2020

• COSPAR Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists, 2014

Languages

Research Grants (selected)

• Apr 2022- Mar 2024 “Orbit Design and Control for the Non-heliocentric Small-body missions”, PI, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, 4.55 million JPY

• Oct 2018- Sep 2019 “Trajectory design in the vicinity of small bodies in highly perturbed dynamicalenvironment”, main performer, CNES R&T Action, R-S18/BS-0005-039, 60,000 €

Featured Publications

• H. Chen, N. Rambaux, V. Lainey, D. Hestroffer, “Mothership-Cubesat Radioscience for Phobos Geodesy and Autonomous Navigation”, Remote sensing, 14(7):1619, 2022, JCR Q1.

• H. Chen, N. Rambaux, J. Vaubaillon, “Accuracy of meteor positioning from space- and ground-based observations”, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 642: L11, 2020. JCR Q1

• H. Chen, E. Canalias, D. Hestroffer, X. Hou, “Effective stability of quasi-satellite orbits in the spatial problem for Phobos exploration”, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 43(12), 2020, pp. 2309-2320, JCR Q1.

• H. Chen, J. Liu, L. Long, et al., “Lunar far side positioning enabled by a CubeSat system deployed in an Earth-Moon halo orbit”, Advances in Space Research, 64(1), 2019, pp. 28-41. JCR Q1

• H. Chen, J. Ma, “Phasing Trajectories to Deploy a Constellation in a Halo Orbit”, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 40(10), 2017, pp. 2662-2667. JCR Q1

• H. Chen, Y. Kawakatsu, T. Hanada, “Earth Escape from a Sun-Earth Halo Orbit using Unstable Manifold and Lunar Swingbys”, Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, 59(5), 2016, pp. 269-277.

• H. Chen, H. Liu, T. Hanada, “Storm-time atmospheric density modeling using neural networks and its application in orbit propagation”, Advances in Space Research, 53(3), 2014, pp. 558-567. JCR Q1