DATE:2018-05-23    
Infomation  
Name: Yingwei Fei
Title: Professor
Phone: 010-62751150
Position:  
Email: [email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS    
1978.09--1982.07 B.S. Geochemistry, Zhejiang University
1982.09--1984.07 M.S. Geochemistry, Institute Of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1984.09--1989.07 Ph.D. Geochemistry, City University of New York
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION  
2007.09--to now Adjunct Professor, Peking University
1996.07--to now Senior Staff Member, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington
2005.12--to now Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland
1991.07--1996.06 Associate Staff Member, Geophysical Laboratory
1992.12--1995.12 Norton Senior Fellow, Norton Company
1989.07--1991.07 Postdoctoral Fellow, Geophysical Laboratory
1988.07--1989.07 Predoctoral Fellow, Geophysical Laboratory
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2013 Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society (GS) and the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG)
2010 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
2000 Crosby Visiting Lectureship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
1999 Mineralogical Society of America Award
1999 Life Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
1992-1996 Norton Senior Fellow
1990 Hou Defeng Medal, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1989 Distinguished Scholar Dissertation Award, City Univ. New York
RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
no record
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member, American Geophysical Union, Mineralogical Society of America, Geochemical Society
DOE, NASA, NSF proposal review panels
AGU mineral and rock physics committee (2000-2002)
Spring AGU meeting program committee (2000-2003)
NSF COMRES facility committee (2002-2006)
Associate editor, American Mineralogists (2000-2004)
Guest editor, Chinese Science Bulletin (2003-2005)
Associate editor, Journal of Geophysical Research (2001-2010)
Chair, International Professionals for the Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences (IPACES) (2006-2007)
AGU medal committee (2010-2012)
NSF COMRES Executive committee (2012-
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANT HISTORY
no record
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
1. Fei, Y., H. K. Mao, and B. O. Mysen, Experimental determination of element partitioning and calculation of phase equilibrium relations in the MgO-FeO-SiO2 system at high pressure and high temperature. J. Geophys. Res., 96, 2157-2169, 1991.
2. Fei, Y. and H. K. Mao, In situ determination of the NiAs phase of FeO at high pressure and temperature, Science 266, 1678-1680, 1994.
3. Fei, Y., C. M. Bertka, and L. W. Finger, High-pressure iron-sulfur compound, Fe3S2, and melting relations in the system Fe-FeS at high pressure, Science 275, 1621-1623, 1997.
4. Hirose, K., Y. Fei, Y. Ma, and H. K. Mao, Fate of subducted basaltic crust in the lower mantle, Nature, 397, 53-56, 1999.
5. Fei, Y. and C. M. Bertka, Phase transitions in the Earth’s mantle and mantle mineralogy. In Mantle Petrology: Field Observations and High-Pressure Experimentation: A Tribute to F. R. Boyd (eds, Y. Fei, C. M. Bertka, and B. O. Mysen), pp. 189-207, Geochemical Society, Special Publication No 6, 1999.
6. Fei, Y., J. Li, C. M. Bertka, and C. T. Prewitt, Structure type and bulk modulus of Fe3S, a new iron-sulfur compound, Amer. Mineral. 85, 1830-1833, 2000.
7. Li, J. and Y. Fei, Experimental constraints on core composition, in Geochemistry of the Mantle and Core (ed. R. W. Carlson), pp. 521-546, 2003.
8. Fei, Y. J. Van Orman, J. Li, W. van Westrenen, C. Sanloup, W. Minarik, K. Hirose, T. Komabayashi, M. Walter, K. Funakoshi, Experimentally determined postspinel transformation boundary in Mg2SiO4 using MgO as an internal pressure standard and its geophysical implications, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B2305, doi: 10.1029/2003JB002562, 2004
9. Fei, Y. and C. M. Bertka, The interior of Mars, Science 308, 1120-1121, 2005.
10. Fei, Y., A. Ricolleau, M. Frank, K. Mibe, G. Shen, V. Prakapenka, Toward an internally consistent pressure scale, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104, 9182-9186 doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609013104, 2007.
11. Ricolleau, A., Y. Fei, E. Cottrell, H. Watson, L. Deng, L. Zhang, G. Fiquet, A. Auzende, M. Roskosz, G. Morard, and V. Prakapenka, Density profile of pyrolite under the lower mantle conditions, Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L06302, doi:10.1029/2008GL036759, 2009.
12. Komabayashi, T., and Y. Fei, Internally consistent thermodynamic database for iron to the Earth’s core conditions, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B03202, doi:10.1029/2009JB006442, 2010.
13. Huang, H., Y. Fei, L. Cai, F. Jing, X. Hu, H. Xie, L. Zhang, Z. Gong, Evidence for an oxygen-depleted liquid outer core of the Earth, Nature, 479, 513-516, doi:10.1038/nature10621, 2011.
14. Fei, Y., Simulation of the planetary interior differentiation processes in the laboratory, J. Vis. Exp. 81, e50778, doi:10.3791/50778, 2013.
15. Fei, Y. and E. Brosh, Experimental study and thermodynamic calculations of phase relations in the Fe-C system at high pressure, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 408, 155-162, 2014.