Jia Chen

Jia Chen graduated from Universität Karlsruhe in 2006 with a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. She obtained her doctoral degree (summa cum laude) from Technische Universität München in 2011. From 2011 to 2015 she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Environmental Science and Engineering department at Harvard University. Since 2015 Jia Chen has been the head of the Environmental Sensing and Modeling group at Technische Universität München. She is also an Associate at Harvard University. She is (co-)author of more than 150 publications and has filed 12 patents (https://go.tum.de/072266).

2014 Postdoctoral Award for Professional Development, Harvard University

2012 VDE/ITG Award 2011 Rohde & Schwarz Award, Technische Universität München

2009 Kaiser Friedrich Forschungspreis

2008 IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society Graduate Student Fellowship Award

2007 Ernst von Siemens Promotionsstipendium

1999 Second prize in the national Mathematic Olympic Competition, China

Jia Chen’s current research focuses on quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and understanding the metabolism of air pollutants in urban environments. Besides the development of novel, compact optical sensors, she has established the worldwide first city sensor network based on the novel method of differential column measurements. This pioneering work enables long-term assessment of urban greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions. More details please see: https://www.ei.tum.de/esm/forschung/.

A full list of publications can be found in: https://go.tum.de/072266   

J. Chen, F. Dietrich, H. Maazallahi, A. Forstmaier, D. Winkler, M. E. G. Hofmann, H. Denier van der Gon, and T. Röckmann, 2020: Methane Emissions from the Munich Oktoberfest, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20, 3683–3696, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3683-2020, 2020. Highlight article in ACP. Featured by Nature (Research Highlight) and Science.

J. Chen, C. Viatte, J. K. Hedelius, T. Jones, J. E. Franklin, H. Parker, E. W. Gottlieb, P. O. Wennberg, M. K. Dubey, and S. C. Wofsy, 2016: Differential Column Measurements Using Compact Solar-Tracking Spectrometers, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16, 8479 – 8498, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-8479-2016, 2016

L. Heinle and J. Chen, 2018: Automated Enclosure and Protection System for Compact Solar-Tracking Spectrometers, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11, 2173 – 2185, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2173-2018, 2018

F. Toja-Silva, J. Chen, S. Hachinger, and F. Hase, 2017: CFD simulation of CO₂ emission from urban thermal power plant:  analysis of turbulent Schmidt number and comparison with Gaussian plume model and measurements, Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics, 169, 177 – 193, https://doi.org/0.1016/j.jweia.2017.07.015, 2017

J. Chen, A. Hangauer, R. Strzoda, M.-C. Amann, 2011: VCSEL-based Calibration-free Carbon Monoxide Sensor at 2.3 µm with in-line Reference Cell, Applied Physics B, 102, 381 – 389, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-010-4011-0, 2011

L. Lan, J. Chen, Y. Wu, Y. Bai, X. Bi, Y. Li, 2018: Self-Calibrated Multiharmonic CO₂ Sensor Using VCSEL for Urban In Situ Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 68, 1140 - 1147, https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2018.2863445, 2018

S. Bhattacharjee, S. K. Ghosh, and J. Chen, 2019: Semantic Kriging for Spatio-temporal Prediction, Studies in Computational Intelligence book series, Springer Nature, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8664-0, ISBN:978-981-13-8664-0, 2019

S. Bhattacharjee and J. Chen, “Prediction of Satellite-based Column CO₂ Concentration by Combining Emission Inventory and LULC information”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.2985047, 2020

X. Zhao, J. Marshall, S. Hachinger, C. Gerbig, M. Frey, F. Hase, and J. Chen, 2019: “Analysis of Total Column CO₂ and CH₄ Measurements in Berlin with WRF-GHG”, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19, 11279 – 11302, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11279-2019, 2019

J. Chen, A. Hangauer, R. Strzoda, M.-C. Amann, 2010: Laser Spectroscopic Oxygen Sensor Using Diffuse Reflector-based Optical Cell and advanced Signal Processing, Applied Physics B, 100, 417 – 425, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-010-3956-3, 2010

Y. Zhu, J. Chen, X. Bi, G. Kuhlmann, K. L. Chan, F. Dietrich, D. Brunner, S. Ye, M. Wenig, 2020:  Spatial and temporal representativeness of point measurements for nitrogen dioxide pollution levels in cities”, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-1198, 2020