Peking University, April 12, 2019: Peking University alumnus Wang Feige, who obtained his Ph.D. degree in Astrophysics in 2017, was selected as Hubble Fellow under the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) on April 4, 2019. Among the 24 newly selected NHFP Fellows, Wang is the only fellow whose Ph.D. study was completed at an Asian university.
Wang Feige
The Hubble Fellowship is a prestigious award in the field of astronomy for postdoctoral studies. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) provides funding for the selected fellows to conduct their postdoctoral research at a U.S. host institution of their choice.
Wang Feige began to study at the Department of Astronomy, Peking University in 2012 after receiving his bachelor’s degree in Physics. He conducted his research under the supervision of Professor Fan Xiaohui from the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and Professor Wu Xue-Bing from the Department of Astronomy. When working on his PhD, he focused on studying high-redshift quasars through optical and infrared sky surveys and has discovered many high-redshift quasars. After he obtained his doctoral degree in astrophysics in 2017, Wang Feige started his postdoctoral research at University of California, Santa Barbara, where he further obtained a number of achievements with international influence in the field of the observation of high-redshift quasars. As a Hubble Fellow, Wang Feige will look into the high-redshift quasars in the early stage of the universe and the supermassive black holes at University of Arizona.
Till today, among all the Ph.D. degree holders cultivated by Chinese universities, only two of them was honored as Hubble Fellow under NHFP. They are Xu Siyao, hubble fellow in 2017, and Wang Feige, hubble fellow in 2019. Both of them graduated from the Department of Astronomy, School of Physics, Peking University.
Written by: Fan Kaixin
Edited by: Ma Yaoli
