Curriculum Vitae

Education and Professional Experience

• 01/2021 – present: Research Scientist, New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
• 01/2019 – 01/2021: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
• 02/2015 – 08/2018: Research Associate, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
• 09/2009 - 03/2015: Ph.D. in Plasma Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
• 09/2005 - 06/2009: B.S. in Applied Physics, Central South University, Changsha, China

Recent Projects

• PI, The role of kinetic electrons in Alfven wave parametric instabilities at low plasma beta, 2024-2027, DOE
• PI, Steps toward direct observation of the Alfvén wave parametric decay instability in a laboratory plasma, 2023-2025, DOE
• PI, Scaling studies of seeded Alfvén wave parametric decay instability in the laboratory, 2023-2026, NASA
• Co-I, Modeling realistic chorus generation using large-scale particle-in-cell simulations, 2022-2026, NSF
• PI, Scaling of seeded Alfven wave parametric decay, 2023-2025, MagNetUS experimental runtime award

Selected Awards

• 2015 – Tsai Shih‑Tung Plasma Physics Award, Awarded by Chou Pei-yuan Foundation
• 2013 – Wang Da-Heng Optics Award, Awarded by Chinese Optical Society
• 2013 – China Important Optics Achievement Award, Awarded by Chinese Laser Press
• 2013 – AMD High-Performance Computing Award, Awarded by SJTU & AMD Inc.
• 2013 – National Scholarship, Awarded by Chinese Ministry of Education
• 2011 – Excellent Teaching Assistant, Awarded by SJTU

Publications (that I led or made a significant contribution to)

1. F. Li, Z. Sheng, Y. Liu, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, W. B. Mori, W. Lu, and J. Zhang, Dense attosecond electron sheets from laser wakefields using an up-ramp density transition, Physical Review Letters 110, 135002 (2013).
2. P. K. Singh#, F. Li#, C. Huang, A. Moreau, R. Hollinger, A. Junghans, A. Favalli, C. Calvi, S. Wang, Y. Wang, H. Song, J. J. Rocca, R. E. Reinovsky, and S. Palaniyappan, Vacuum laser acceleration of super-ponderomotive electrons using relativistic transparency injection, Nature Communications 13, 54 (2022). #Equal contribution
3. F. Li, P. K. Singh, S. Palaniyappan, and C. Huang, Particle resonances and trapping of direct laser acceleration in a laser-plasma channel, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 24, 041301 (2021).
4. F. Li, X. Fu, and S. Dorfman, Effects of wave damping and finite perpendicular scale on three-dimensional Alfven wave parametric decay in low-beta plasmas, Physics of Plasmas 31, 082113 (2024).
5. F. Li, X. Fu, and S. Dorfman, Parametric decay of Alfvénic wave packets in nonperiodic low-beta plasmas, The Astrophysical Journal 924, 33 (2022).
6. F. Li, X. Fu, and S. Dorfman, Hybrid simulation of Alfvén wave parametric decay instability in a laboratory relevant plasma, Physics of Plasmas 29, 092108 (2022).
7. F. Li, Z. Sheng, M. Chen, L.-L. Yu, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, W. B. Mori, and J. Zhang, Radially polarized, half-cycle, attosecond pulses from laser wakefields through coherent synchrotronlike radiation, Physical Review E 90, 043104 (2014).
8. F. Li, Z. Sheng, M. Chen, H.-C. Wu, Y. Liu, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, W. B. Mori, and J. Zhang, Coherent kilo-electron-volt backscattering from plasma-wave boosted relativistic electron mirrors, Applied Physics Letters 105, 161102 (2014).
9. F. Li, C. Huang, R. V. Garimella, T. J. T. Kwan, and B. E. Carlsten, Validation of a novel method for the calculation of near-field synchrotron radiation, Proceedings of 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 397-399 (2019).
10. C. Huang, F. Li, H. N. Rakotoarivelo, B. Shen, J. Domine, B. Carlsten, Gary Dilts, R.Garimella, T. Kwan, and R. Robey, CoSyR: a novel beam dynamics code for the modeling of synchrotron radiation effects, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1034, 166808 (2022).
11. T. Wilson, F. Li, S.-M. Weng, M. Chen, P. McKenna, and Z. Sheng, Laser pulse compression towards collapse and beyond in plasma, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, 52, 055403 (2019).
12. T. Wilson, F. Li, M. Weikum, and Z. Sheng, Influence of strong magnetic fields on laser pulse propagation in underdense plasma, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 59, 065002 (2017).
13. J. Mu, F. Li, Z. Sheng, and J. Zhang, Effect of transverse magnetic fields on high-harmonic generation in intense laser-solid interaction, Laser and Particle Beams, 34, 545 (2016).
14. J. Mu, F. Li, M. Zeng, M. Chen, Z. Sheng, and J. Zhang, Robust relativistic electron mirrors in laser wakefields for enhanced Thomson backscattering, Applied Physics Letters, 103, 261114 (2013).
15. Y. Liu, F. Li, M. Zeng, M. Chen, and Z. Sheng, Ultra-intense attosecond pulses emitted from laser wakefields in non-uniform plasmas, Laser and Particle Beams, 31, 233 (2013).
16. M. Weikum, F. Li, R. W. Assmann, Z. Sheng, and D. Jaroszynski, Generation of attosecond electron bunches in a laser-plasma accelerator using a plasma density upramp, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 829, 33-36 (2016).
17. M. Chen, J. Luo, F. Li, F. Liu, Z. Sheng, and J. Zhang, Tunable synchrotron-like radiation from centimeter scale plasma channels, Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16015 (2016).
18. S.-X. Luan, W. Yu, F. Li, D. Wu, Z. Sheng, M.-Y. Yu, and J. Zhang, Laser propagation in dense magnetized plasma, Physical Review E 94, 053207 (2016).
19. Y. Liu, Z. Sheng, J. Zheng, F. Li, X.-L. Xu, W. Lu, W. B. Mori, C.-S. Liu, and J. Zhang, Ultrafast XUV emission from laser wakefields in underdense plasma, New Journal of Physics, 14, 083031 (2012).
20. X. Yang, E. Brunetti, D. Reboredo Gil, G. H. Welsh, F. Li, S. Cipiccia, B. Ersfeld, D. W. Grant, P. A. Grant, M. R. Islam, M. P. Tooley, G. Vieux, S. M. Wiggins, Z. M. Sheng, and D. A. Jaroszynski, Three electron beams from a laser‑plasma wakefield accelerator and the energy apportioning question, Scientific Reports, 7, 43910 (2017).
21. Angana Mondal, Ratul Sabui, Sheroy Tata, RMGM Trines, SV Rahul, Feiyu Li, Soubhik Sarkar, William Trickey, Rakesh Y Kumar, Debobrata Rajak, John Pasley, Zhengming Sheng, Jagannath Jha, M Anand, Ram Gopal, APL Robinson, M Krishnamurthy, Shaped liquid drops generate MeV temperature electron beams with millijoule class laser, Communications Physics, 7, 85, (2024).