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Full First Name(s)
Andrew
Title (honorific)
Prof
Academic Qualifications
PhD (1997, Columbia University, USA); MA (1993, Columbia University, USA); BS (1990, California Institute of Technology, USA)
Research Discipline(s)
Brief Biography (English)

Prof Andrew Chen was born in New York City, USA in 1970. After receiving his PhD from Columbia University in 1997 and a postdoctoral fellowship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, he moved to Milan, Italy to work on AGILE, the Italian Space Agency gamma-ray space telescope.

He moved to South Africa in 2013 to become part of the Astrophysics group in the School of Physics at University of the Witwatersrand. Prof Chen's field of research is observational multiwavelength, multimessenger and high-energy astrophysics.

He is a Member of international collaborations such as AGILE, Fermi, H.E.S.S., KM3NeT, and CTA. Prof Chen is also the Chair of the Scientific Management and Steering Committee of the Wits Planetarium.

ORCiD Profile
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6425-5692
Job Title
Professor
Primary Organisation
University of the Witwatersrand
Website Address for Primary Organisation
https://www.wits.ac.za/
African Country
Other (non-African)
African Region
Other (non-African)

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