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Welcome to Professor Chuanfei Dong's homepage!
If you have difficulty pronouncing my name, here is the pronunciation: /tʃuæn’feɪ/ or you can just call me 'Fei' or 'Felix'.
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Boston University's The Brink highlighted my DOE Early Career Award.
I was on Princeton University News on Nov. 30, 2017. Similar news stories can also be found at Phys.org, space.com, Science Daily, Space Daily, Yahoo, siliconrepublic, Daily Galaxy, BGR and Newswise etc.
My recent TV interview on "Terraforming Mars" is now available at German TV Program zdf/3sat, which is the scientific and cultural flagship program of the German, Austrian and Swiss public broadcasting channels. An online column about this study with James Green (NASA Chief Scientist) can be found at Many Worlds.
02/20/2024
I was selected as a 2024 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics, which was highlighted by Boston University's The Brink.
11/28/2023
I got the 2023 HPC Innovation Excellence Award for performing the world’s largest three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence simulation (using 200 million hours of computer time on NASA supercomputers). Winners will receive a trophy, monetary award, and recognition via a global press release. BU's Hariri Institute for Computing wrote a news story here.
10/27/2023
The paper "Detection of magnetospheric ion drift patterns at Mars" led by the group member Dr. Chi Zhang was published in Nature Communications.
08/17/2023
Boston University's The Brink highlighted my DOE Early Career Research Award; also read it here.
05/10/2023
Our JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) Cycle 2 proposal entitled "TRAPPIST-1 Planets: Atmospheres Or Not?" led by Dr. Michael Gillon, was selected and awarded 70.2 hours!
12/07/2022
My recent article titled "Reconnection-driven energy cascade in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence," which achieved the world's largest MHD turbulence simulation, was published in Science Advances. News Stories in PPPL, EurekAlert, Phys.org, Newswise, ScienceDaily, Scienmag, The Debrief, etc.
11/30/2022
The BepiColombo SERENA team paper titled "Inner southern magnetosphere observation of Mercury via SERENA ion sensors in BepiColombo mission" was published in Nature Communications.