Associate Professors
LI Fei
Associate Professor

Ph.D.

Email: [email protected]

Educational Background


August 2011--July 2017, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Ph.D. of Nuclear Science and Technology

August 2007--July 2011, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Bachelor of Engineering Physics


Work Experience

Jan 2023--Present; Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Associate Professor

Mar 2018--Nov 2022; UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Postdoctoral Fellow


Research Field

Plasma-based accelerator physics

Advanced light source techniques

Large-scale parallel numerical simulation


Research Situation

Jan 2024--Jan 2027, Optimization of Laser Wakefield Accelerators, Supported by Distinguished Young Scholars of NSFC (Overseas), PI

Oct 2023--Sep 2028, High-quality electron acceleration in plasma accelerators, Supported by Strategy Priority Research Program (Category B) of CAS, PI

Jan 2024--Dec 2027, Ultrafast electron diraction based on laser wakefield accelerators, Supported by NSFC, PI

Jan 2020--Dec 2024, External injection and phase space manipulation in laser wakefield accelerators, Supported by Major Program of NSFC, Participant

Nov 2022--Oct 2024, Development of a desktop MeV ultrafast electron diffraction source based on laser wakefield accelerators, Supported by NSFC, Participant


Academic Achievements

Shuang Liu, Fei Li, Shiyu Zhou, Jianfei Hua, Warren B Mori, Chan Joshi, and Wei Lu. A Scalable, High-Efficiency, Low-Energy-Spread Laser Wakefield Accelerator Using a Tri-Plateau Plasma Channel. Research, 7:0396, 2024

Shuang Liu, Fei Li, Yingchao Du, Bo Peng, Yu Fang, Xiaonan Ning, Tianliang Zhang, Jiucheng Chen, Zhi Song, Hengyuan Xiao, Linyi Zhou, Bing Zhou, Jianfei Hua, and Wei Lu. Experimental Demonstration of an Emittance-Preserving Beam Energy Dechirper Using a Hollow Channel Plasma. Physical Review Letters, 133:175001, 2024

F Li, JF Hua, XL Xu, CJ Zhang, LX Yan, YC Du, WH Huang, HB Chen, CX Tang, W Lu, et al. Generating high-brightness electron beams via ionization injection by transverse colliding lasers in a plasma-wakefield accelerator. Physical review letters, 111(1):015003, 2013

Fei Li, Thamine N Dalichaouch, Jacob R Pierce, Xinlu Xu, Frank S Tsung, Wei Lu, Chan Joshi, and Warren B Mori. Ultra-bright electron bunch injection in a plasma wakefield driven by a superluminal flying focus electron beam. Physical Review Letters, 128:174803, 2022

Zan Nie, Fei Li, Felipe Morales, Serguei Patchkovskii, Olga Smirnova, Weiming An, Noa Nambu, Daniel Matteo, Kenneth A Marsh, Frank Tsung, et al. In situ generation of high-energy spin-polarized electrons in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator. Physical Review Letters, 126(5):054801, 2021

Fei Li, Weiming An, Viktor K Decyk, Xinlu Xu, Mark J Hogan, and Warren B Mori. A quasi-static particle-in-cell algorithm based on an azimuthal fourier decomposition for highly efficient simulations of plasma-based acceleration: Qpad. Computer Physics Communications, 261:107784, 2021

Fei Li, Weiming An, Frank S. Tsung, Viktor K. Decyk, and Warren B. Mori. Integrating a ponderomotive guiding center algorithm into a quasi-static particle-in-cell code based on azimuthal mode decomposition. Journal of Computational Physics, 470:111599, 2022

Fei Li, Viktor K Decyk, Kyle G Miller, Adam Tableman, Frank S Tsung, Marija Vranic, Ricardo A Fonseca, and Warren B Mori. Accurately simulating nine-dimensional phase space of relativistic particles in strong fields. Journal of Computational Physics, 438:110367, 2021

Fei Li, Kyle G Miller, Xinlu Xu, Frank S Tsung, Viktor K Decyk, Weiming An, Ricardo A Fonseca, and Warren B Mori. A new field solver for modeling of relativistic particle-laser interactions using the particle-in-cell algorithm. Computer Physics Communications, 258:107580, 2021

Z. Nie, F. Li, F. Morales, S. Patchkovskii, O. Smirnova, W. An, C. Zhang, Y. Wu, N. Nambu, D. Matteo, K. A. Marsh, F. Tsung, W. B. Mori, and C. Joshi. Single-species plasma photo-cathode can generate highly spin-polarized multi-GeV electron beams. submitted to Physical Review Research, 2021

F Li, Z Nie, YP Wu, B Guo, XH Zhang, S Huang, J Zhang, Z Cheng, Y Ma, Y Fang, et al. Transverse phase space diagnostics for ionization injection in laser plasma acceleration using permanent magnetic quadrupoles. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 60(4):044007, 2018

XL Xu, F Li, W An, TN Dalichaouch, P Yu, W Lu, C Joshi, and WB Mori. High quality electron bunch generation using a longitudinal density-tailored plasma-based accelerator in the three-dimensional blowout regime. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 20(11):111303, 2017

Fei Li, Peicheng Yu, Xinlu Xu, Frederico Fiuza, Viktor K Decyk, Thamine Dalichaouch, Asher Davidson, Adam Tableman, Weiming An, Frank S Tsung, et al. Controlling the numerical cerenkov instability in pic simulations using a customized finite dierence maxwell solver and a local  based current correction. Computer Physics Communications, 214:6–17, 2017

F Li, YP Wu, Z Nie, B Guo, XH Zhang, S Huang, J Zhang, Z Cheng, Y Ma, Y Fang, et al. On the feasibility of sub-100 nm rad emittance measurement in plasma accelerators using permanent magnetic quadrupoles. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 60(1):014029, 2017

F Li, CJ Zhang, Y Wan, YP Wu, XL Xu, JF Hua, CH Pai, W Lu, YQ Gu, WB Mori, et al. Low-energy-spread laser wakefield acceleration using ionization injection with a tightly focused laser in a mismatched plasma channel. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 58(3):034004, 2016


Part-time Academic Job

Oct 2022--Present, Academic Committee Member, High Energy Density Physics Young Scientist Forum


Award honors

2017, CAI Shidong Award for Plasma Physics, Chou Pei-yuan Foundation

2017, 2019, IOP Outstanding Reviewer Awards, IOP

2017, Excellent Doctoral Thesis Prize, Tsinghua University


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