Xin Chen

Xin Chen serves as a post-doctoral researcher at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid's Department of Aerospace Engineering. Her academic journey includes a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Shanghai University (earning the Shanghai Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award), a master's degree in Space Engineering jointly from the University of Pisa and Technical University of Madrid, and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering completed in 2015. Her doctoral research on Bare Thermionic Electrodynamic Tether earned the Outstanding Thesis with Honor distinction. Her expertise spans plasma physics, space electrodynamic tethers, and robotics automation. During her research stay at MIT, she conducted significant work on Spectroscopic Hall Thruster Erosion-Rate Measurements. Her professional experience includes work at GMV Spain in robotics automation and control. Her research focuses on plasma physics in space applications, particularly in electrodynamics tether technology and plasma diagnostics, contributing to the advancement of space propulsion systems and plasma-based technologies.