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 as well as my Sloan Research Fellowship.
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.
04/15/2025
Congratulations to our undergraduate research assistants on their exciting next steps! Jacqueline Vazquez will be pursuing graduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Cindy Zhou is heading to the University of Chicago for graduate school. Yue Yuan will begin his graduate studies at UCLA.
03/21/2025
BU's Hariri Institute for Computing wrote a news story AI-powered Breakthrough in Plasma Science Delivers New Computational Efficiencies - Unlocks Potential for Space and Fusion Research to highlight our recently published PNAS paper. The study was also selected for inclusion in the PNAS Showcase on Kudos, recognizing its significance and potential for interdisciplinary engagement.
12/08/2024
BU Arts x Sciences Magazine featured my research "Is There Potential for Life Outside Our Solar System?"
05/16/2024
BUExperts Medium highlights my role as BU institutional PI of the Mauve telescope "Stellar Insights: The Mauve Mission’s Journey into the Cosmos." The same story can be found at Phys.org.
02/20/2024
I was selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, which was highlighted by Boston University's The Brink.
08/17/2023
Boston University's The Brink highlighted my DOE Early Career Research Award; also read it here.
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.