Chuanfei Dong
Assistant Professor, Astronomy
- Title Assistant Professor, Astronomy
- Office CAS 515
- Email dcfy@bu.edu
- Phone 617-353-0662
- Education B.S., University of Science and Technology of China
M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S., M.S.E, Ph.D., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Interests: Star-Terrestrial Planet Interactions in Our Solar System and Beyond; Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence; Wave-Particle Interaction; Physics-informed Machine Learning; High Intensity Laser-Plasma Interaction.
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/chuanfeidong
Professor Dong joined the Department of Astronomy and Center for Space Physics at Boston University as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2023. Prior to that, he was a Staff Scientist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (.gov) – a DOE National Laboratory managed by Princeton University and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University.
Awards and Honors:
- DOE Early Career Award (2023)
- National Academy of Sciences New Leaders in Space Science (2019)
- NASA Group Achievement Award to MAVEN Science Team (2016, 2018)
- Winner of MBR Space Settlement Challenge, Dubai Future Foundation (2018)
- Young Researcher Award, ESA (2018)
- Robert H. Goddard (RHG) Exceptional Achievement for Science to the MAVEN Science Team (2016)
- NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015)
- Richard and Eleanor Towner Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement, University of Michigan (2015)
- NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (2013 – 2015).
- Vela Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2013)