Chuanfei Dong Receives DOE Early Career Research Award

Chuanfei Dong, a Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate and CAS Assistant Professor of astronomy/Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate Chuanfei Dong is working to untangle the mysteries of plasma, and his efforts were recently recognized with a prestigious award from the US Department of Energy (DOE).

Dong, an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University, is among 93 scientists selected by the DOE for its Early Career Research Program. The award comes with $875,000 in grant funding, which Dong will use to support a research project aimed at better understanding the flow of energy in plasma turbulence.

Dong’s study of plasma could help answer questions about solar flares, life on other planets, the history of Mars, and carbon-free fusion energy.

Learn more about his work in The Brink story by Corinne Steinbrenner.