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, turbulence, wave–particle interactions, and collisionless shocks; physics-informed machine learning and AI for Science; laboratory astrophysics and high-intensity laser–plasma interactions.
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.
Selected Honors and Awards:
- IBM Einstein Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study (2026)
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics (2024)
- HPC Innovation Excellence Award (2023)
- U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Award (2023)
- New Leaders in Space Science, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2019)
- European Space Agency Young Researcher Award (2018)
- NASA Group Achievement Awards, MAVEN Science Team (2016, 2018)
- Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement for Science Award, MAVEN Science Team (2016)
- NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015)
- NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (2013–2015)