Postdoc Research Associate, Space Plasma Physics
Aug 2022 -- June 2024
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics
2016 -- 2022
Thesis: Momentum and Heat Transport in MHD Turbulence in Presence of Stochastic Magnetic Fields.
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Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics
2011 -- 2015
Chang-Chun Chen, Hui Li, P. H. Diamond, and Shengtai Li (2025). "Zonal Flow and Self-regulating Mechanism in a Hydrodynamic Disk", Astrophysical Journal, 982 116. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad9a68
Chang-Chun Chen, Patrick H. Diamond, and Steven M. Tobias (2021). “Ambipolar Diffusion on Partially-Ionized β-plane Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence” (In preparation).
Chang-Chun Chen, Patrick H. Diamond, and Steven M. Tobias (2021). "Ion Heat and Parallel Momentum Transport by Stochastic Magnetic Fields and Turbulence", Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 64, 015006. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6587/ac38b2 (invited paper)
Chang-Chun Chen, Patrick H. Diamond, Rameswar Singh, and Steven M. Tobias (2021), "Potential vorticity transport in weakly and strongly magnetized plasmas" , Physics of Plasmas 28, 042301. DOI: 10.1063/5.0041072 (invited paper)
Chang-Chun Chen & Patrick Diamond (2020), "Potential Vorticity Mixing in a Tangled Magnetic Field", The Astrophysical Journal, 892(1), 24. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab774f
Neutrals and Electromagnetic drift-Rossby-Alfvén turbulence: Drag, Entrainment, and Ambipolar Diffusion
Chang-Chun Chen (presenter), P.H. Diamond, Mikhail Malkov, S.M. Tobias
Invited Talk, Association of Asian Pacific Physical Societies Division of Plasma Physics---6th Annual Meeting, e-conference (JST), 13th October 2022
Ion Heat and Parallel Momentum Transport by Stochastic Magnetic Fields and Turbulence
Chang-Chun Chen (presenter), P.H. Diamond, Rameswar Singh, S.M. Tobias
Invited Talk, Association of Asian Pacific Physical Societies Division of Plasma Physics---5th Annual Meeting, e-conference (JST), 27th September 2021
On how Decoherence of Vorticity Flux by Stochastic Magnetic Fields Quenches Zonal Flow Generation
Chang-Chun Chen (presenter), P.H. Diamond, Rameswar Singh, S.M. Tobias
Invited Talk, 2021 Asia-Pacific Transport Working Group Meeting (APTWG), Fukuoka, Japan, 08 July 2021
On how Decoherence of Vorticity Flux by Stochastic Magnetic Fields Quenches Zonal Flow Generation
Chang-Chun Chen (presenter), P.H. Diamond, S.M. Tobias
Plenary Talk, 2021 Virtual U.S. Transport Task Force Workshop, 21 April 2021
Shear Layer and Staircase Formation in a Stochastic Magnetic Field
Chang-Chun Chen (presenter), P.H. Diamond, Rameswar Singh, S.M. Tobias
Invited Talk, Working Group of Plasma Application in Layering at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)--- Virtual Meeting (PST), 18 February 2021
Potential Vorticity Mixing in a Tangled Magnetic Field
Chang-Chun Chen
Invited Talk, American Physics Society (APS) Division of Plasma Physics---62nd Annual Meeting, Virtual Meeting (CST), 10 November 2020
Decoherence of Vorticity Flux by Stochastic B-Fields Quenches Zonal Flows
Chang-Chun Chen (presenter), P.H. Diamond, Rameswar Singh, S.M. Tobias
Invited Talk, Association of Asian Pacific Physical Societies Division of Plasma Physics---4th Annual Meeting, e-conference (KST), 27 October 2020
2021 Sep. Session Chair, Association of Asian Pacific Physical Societies Division of Plasma Physics---5th Annual Meeting
2021 -- present Reviewer of peer-reviewed scientific journal articles
2021 June---July Summer Student, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA
Program: Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Training for Modeling Physical Systems
2021 Jan. -- Mar. Invited Participant, Layering in Atmospheres, Oceans and Plasmas, UC Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), USA
2019 Jul. -- Aug. Research-Project Student, Festival de Théorie, 10th edition "Phase Dynamics", CEA Cadarache, France