Dr Christopher Chen is a Reader in the Astronomy Unit of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. He gained his PhD in Space Physics at Imperial College London in 2011, before taking up a research position at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2013, he returned to Imperial as a Junior Research Fellow and in 2016 was awarded an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship. In 2017, he moved to QMUL to become a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in 2021. In 2022, he became a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Reader in Space Plasma Physics. His research covers fundamental aspects of space plasmas, including plasma turbulence, instabilities, kinetic plasma physics, and more recently has expanded into lab plasma experiments and space weather research. He has been involved in space missions such as NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale and NASA Parker Solar Probe, served on the APS GPAP and ESA HAUS committees, and is an Associate Editor at Frontiers in Physics and Frontiers in Astronomy & Space Science.