{"id":3130,"date":"2023-08-30T15:08:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=3130"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:19:19","slug":"chuanfei-dong","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/profiles\/chuanfei-dong\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuanfei Dong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research Interests:<\/strong> <em>Star\u2013terrestrial planet interactions in our Solar System and beyond; magnetic reconnection, turbulence, wave\u2013particle interactions, and collisionless shocks; physics-informed machine learning and AI for Science; laboratory astrophysics and high-intensity laser\u2013plasma interactions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/chuanfeidong\">https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/chuanfeidong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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) \u2013 a DOE National Laboratory managed by Princeton University and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Honors and Awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IBM Einstein Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study (2026)<\/li>\n<li>Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics (2024)<\/li>\n<li>HPC Innovation Excellence Award (2023)<\/li>\n<li>U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Award (2023)<\/li>\n<li>New Leaders in Space Science, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2019)<\/li>\n<li>European Space Agency Young Researcher Award (2018)<\/li>\n<li>NASA Group Achievement Awards, MAVEN Science Team (2016, 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement for Science Award, MAVEN Science Team (2016)<\/li>\n<li>NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015)<\/li>\n<li>NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (2013\u20132015)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":11696,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3130\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}