• 1. 1. Guest InvestigatorApplied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | Jul, 2025-
     2. Assistant Professor, Dep. of Hydraulic & Ocean Eng., NCKU| Aug 2016-Jul, 2022
     3. Guest InvestigatorApplied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | Aug, 2016-Aug, 2019
     4. Postdoctoral InvestigatorApplied Ocean Physics & Engineering, WHOI | Mar, 2015-Aug, 2016
     5. Engineer, Project Manager, Business Development ManagerDHI Singapore & Shanghai | 2007-2009
     6. Professional PracticeDHI Headquarter, Denmark | Mar, 2007-Aug 2007

• Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, European Commission | 2007-2009
• Two year full scholarship for Joint Master Program in Europe
• The First Prize of 2004 English Presentation Contest | 2004
• Taiwan international Group of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

• Chuang, T,-L., Chen, J.-L.*, Chang, M., Jan S, Yang, Y. and Lien, R. C., (2025). A Divergence-Vorticity View of Nonlinear Oceanic Lee Wave Obtained by A Two-vessel Survey. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans,130, e2024JC021422.
• Vladoiu, A., Lien, R., Kunze, E., Ma, B., Essink, S., Yang, Y. J., Chang, M., Jan, S., Chen, J., Yang, K., & Yeh, Y. (2025). Finescale Measurements of Kelvin–Helmholtz Instabilities at a Kuroshio Seamount. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 55(11), 2097-2117. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-24-0235.1
• Yeh, Y.-Y., Chang, M.-H.*, Lien, R.-C., Chang, J.-X., Chen, J.-L., Jan, S., et al. (2024). Turbulence generation via nonlinear lee wave trailing edge instabilities in Kuroshio-seamount interactions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129, e2024JC020971.
• Pao CH, Romdani, A., Chen, J.‐L.*, (2023) Tidally-modulated stratification in a channel-shoal estuary, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. Volume 284,2023,108279 [link]
• Tsai, S.-D., Lin, Y.-C., Romdani, A., Chen, J.‐*, Hsu Ray T., and Liu James T., (2023) On the occurrence of low concentration hyperpycnal river plumes in small mountainous river-canyon system, Continental Shelf Research. 2023.104932 [link]
• Tsai, S.-D., Chen, J-L*., Hsu, W.-Y., Tsai, W.-Z., Romdani, A., (2023) A numerical investigation of the transport process of density currents over steep slopes and its implications for subsea cable breaks, Ocean Eng. Volume 269,2023,113446 [link]
• Romdani, A., Chen, J-L*., Chien, H, Lin, J-H., Liao, C-Y, Hou, C-Q, (2023) Downdrift Port Siltation Adjacent to a River Mouth: Effects of Meso-tidal Conditions and Typhoon. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering ASCE [link]
• Chang, M., Cheng, Y., Yeh, Y., Yang, Y. J., Jan, S., Liu, C., Matsuno, T., Endoh, T., Tsutsumi, E., Chen, J., & Guo, X. (2022) Internal hydraulic transition and turbulent mixing observed in the Kuroshio over the I-Lan Ridge off northeastern Taiwan, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52, 3179–3198 [link]
• Chen, J.-L.*, Yu X, Chang M-H, Jan S, Yang YJ and Lien R-C, (2022/05) Shear Instability and Turbulent Mixing in the Stratified Shear Flow Behind a Topographic Ridge at High Reynolds Number. Mar. Sci. 9:829579. Editor: Saito Review by :Nagai (JGR Ocean Editor) & Stocchino [link]
• Romdani, A., Chen J-L*; Chien H, Lin J-H; Hung C-K; Huang Y-Q, (2022/03) Downdrift Port Siltation adjacent to a River Mouth: Mechanisms and Effects of Littoral Sediment Transport to the Navigation Channel, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering ASCE, 148, 05022001, Special Collection on Case Studies in Waterways Engineering [link]
• Zhong, Y-Z, Chien, H, Lin, M-Y, Wargula, A, Chen, J-L.* (2022/02) On the Dependency of Bottom Drag and the Eddy Viscosity upon Flow Structure in the Coastal Boundary Layer.  Mar. Sci. Eng. 10(3):324. [link]
• Romdani, A., Tsai, S.-D., Tsai, W.-Z., Lin, Y.-C., Chen, J.-L.*, (2022/01). A numerical investigation on the occurrence of the typhoon-triggered density currents of the 2008-flood event. J. Coast. Offshore Sci. Eng. 1, 100–116.[link]
• Pao CH, Chen, J.-L., Su SF, Huang YC, Huang WH, Kuo CH, (2021/03) The effect of Wave-induced Current and Coastal Structure on Sediment Transport at the Zengwen River Mouth, Mar. Sci. Eng. 9 (3), 333. [link]
• Wang, T., Wei, Z., Jiang, W., Xu, T., Chen, J.‐, Bian, C., (2021/02) Quantification of numerical mixing in coastal ocean models through an offline method, Ocean Engineering, 222, 108588. [link]
• Geyer, W.R., Ralston, D.K. and Chen, J.‐(2020/12), Mechanisms of Exchange Flow in an Estuary with a Narrow, Deep Channel and Wide, Shallow Shoals. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 125: e2020JC016092. [link]
• A. Shirazi, E.W. Carr, G.R. Parsons, P. Hoagland, D.K. Ralston, J. Chen, (2019) Increased operational costs of electricity generation in the Delaware River and Estuary from salinity increases due to sea-level rise and a deepened channel, Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 244, 228-234.[link]
• Chen, J.-L.*, Ralston. D. K., Geyer, W. R., Sommerfield, C., and Chant, B (2018), Wave generation, dissipation, and disequilibrium in an embayment with complex bathymetry, Geophys. Res., 123, 7856-7876 [link]
• Wargula A., Raubenheimer, B., and Elgar, S, Chen, J.-L., Shi, F. and Traykovski, P., (2018), Tidal flow asymmetry owing to inertia and waves on an unstratified, shallow ebb shoal, Geophys. Res. 123, 6779-6799 [link]
• Chen, J.-L.*, Hsu, T.-J., Shi, F., Raubenheimer, B., and Elgar, S. (2015), Hydrodynamic and sediment transport modeling of New River Inlet (NC) under the Interaction of Tides and Waves, Geophys. Res. 120, 4028-4047(Fig3, featured in JGR: Oceans Website) [link]
• Spydell, M. S., Feddersen, F., Olabarrieta, M., Chen, J.-L., Raubenheimer, B., Elgar, S., and Guza, R. T. (2015), Observed and modeled drifters at a tidal inlet, Geophys. Res. Oceans,120, 4825–4844 [link]
• Rogowski, P., E. Terrill, and Chen, J.-L. (2014), Observations of the frontal region of a buoyant river plume using an autonomous underwater vehicle,  Geophys. Res. Oceans, 119, 7549– 7567 (Fig6, featured in JGR: Oceans Website)[link]
• Chen, J.-L.*, Shi, F., Hsu, T.-J. and Kirby, J. T., (2014), NearCoM-TVD - A quasi-3D nearshore circulation and sediment transport model, Coastal Engineering, 91, 200-212 [link]

Reviewer Service

• Journal of Geophysical Research (AGU)
• Ocean Modelling, Ocean Engineering, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (Elsevier)
• Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE)

Affiliation and Service

• Session Chair, Nearshore Processes, AGU Fall Meeting| Dec, 2016
• WHOI Postdoctoral Representative | Nov, 2015 - Oct, 2016
• Session Convener, Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference, North America | June, 2014
• Vice President, Taiwanese Student Association at U of Delaware | 2010-2011
• Program Assistant, DAAD (The German Academic Exchange Service) summer institute | summer, 2004
• Public Representative, National Cheng Kung University Student Association | 2000-2001.