WELCOME

Feng Chu, Ph.D.

I was born and raised in Pingdingshan, Henan Province, in central China. I received my B.S. in Applied Physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Later, I joined Dr. Fred Skiff’s group as a graduate research assistant in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa. My Ph.D. research interests involved experiments and simulations on plasma waves and instabilities, laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) diagnostics of plasmas, and Lagrangian model for LIF measurements of plasma ion temperature and electrostatic waves. After I defended my Ph.D. in April 2018, I became a postdoctoral research scholar in Iowa, mentored by Dr. Don Gurnett and Dr. Jasper Halekas. My research mainly focused on investigating the ionopause in Mars' ionosphere and the Moon's interaction with the space plasma environment. Currently I am a scientist in the P-4 Thermonuclear Plasma Physics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, leading the Plasma Liner Experiment (PLX), funded by Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E).