Hongru Chen

My CV

Research interests

Astrodynamics; space trajectory design; planetary geodesy; nanosatellite engineering; upper atmosphere

Education

• Ph.D. in Aeronautics & Astronautics, Kyushu University, Japan, 2015

• B.S. in Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, 2010

Professional experience

• Assist. Prof, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Eng., University of Texas at Arlington, USA, 12/2024- 

• Assist. Prof, Department of Aero. and Astro. Eng., University of Southampton, UK, 05/2024-12/2024

• Assist. Prof., Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kyushu University, Japan, 02/2021-04/2024

• Postdoc & Affiliate, IMCCE, Paris Observatory, France, 10/2017-12/2021

• Assistant Researcher, Eng. and Tech. Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CSU/CAS), 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

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

Awards (selected)

• Excellent Reviewer for the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 10/2021-09/2022

• COSPAR Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists, 2014 & 2020

Service

Reviewers for AIAA SciTech, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Astrophysics and space science, Celestial mechanics and dynamical astronomy, IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems

Grants-in-aid 

• NASA MPLAN, 2025

• JSPS for Early-Career Scientists, 2022

• CASIO Science Promotion Foundation, 2022

• CNES R&T, 2019

Languages

中文, English, 日本語 (~N3), français (B1)

Featured publications

• H. Chen, X. Hou, M. Bando, "Stable Orbiting around Small Moons using J2-Perturbed Elliptic Restricted Problem", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, accessed March 19, 2024

• H. Chen, "Capacity of Sun-driven Lunar Swingby Sequences and their Application in Asteroid Retrieval", Astrodynamics, 7(3), pp. 315—334, 2023.

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

• 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), pp. 2309—2320, 2020.

• 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), pp. 28—41, 2019.

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

• 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), pp. 269—277, 2016

• 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), 558-567, 2014