• Postdoctoral Associate, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica (September 2017–July 2018)

• Visiting Scholar, Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University (May 2017–July 2017). Hosted by Prof. Chung-Wen Lan.
• Postdoctoral Associate, Physics, Northeastern University (April 2015–July 2017)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering, UT-Austin (June 2014–May 2015)

Research Summary

• Nonlinear Dynamics
   
• Fracture Dynamics
   
• Dendrite Formation

• I.-I. Lin, C.-H. Chen, I.-F. Pun, W. T. Liu, and C.-C. Wu, Warm ocean anomaly, air sea fluxes, and the rapid intensification of tropical cyclone Nargis (2008), Geophys. Res. Lett., 36(3), L03817, 2009. (Impact Factor: 4.253; Rank in Category: 14 of 188).
• C.-H. Chen, H. P. Zhang, J. Niemczura, K. Ravi-Chandar and M. Marder, 2011, Scaling of crack propagation in rubber sheets, EPL(Europhysics Letters), 96(3) 36009. (Impact Factor: 1.957; Rank in Category: 23 of 76).
• B. Rodenborn, C.-H. Chen, H. L. Swinney, B. Liu, and H. P. Zhang, 2013, Propulsion of microorganisms by a helical flagellum, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(5): E338–E347. (Impact Factor: 9.661; Rank in Category: 4 of 64).
• M. Marder, C.-H. Chen and T. Patzek, 2015, Simple Models of the Hydrofracture Process, Physical Review E, 92(6): 062408. (Impact Factor: 2.366; Rank in Category: 6 of 55).
• C.-H. Chen, T. Cambonie, V. Lazarus, M. Nicoli, A. Pons, and A. Karma*, 2015, Crack Front Segmentation and Facet Coarsening in Mixed-Mode Fracture. Physical Review Letters, 115(26): 265503. (Impact Factor: 8.462; Rank in Category: 6 of 79).
• G. Zimmermann, L. Sturz, [and 25 others, including C.-H. Chen], 2017, Columnar and equiaxed solidification of Al-7wt.%Si alloy in reduced gravity in the frame of the CETSOL project. JOM, 69(8): 1269-1279. (Impact Factor: 1.86; Rank in Category: 17 of 74).
• C.-H. Chen, E. Bouchbinder, and A. Karma, 2017, Instability in dynamic fracture and the failure of the classical theory of cracks. Nature Physics, 13(12): 1186. (Impact Factor: 22.806; Rank in Category: 2 of 79).