Received Bachelor degree in Geophysics from University of Science and Technology of China(1982) and PhD in Geophysics from Institute of Surveying and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(1992).Worked in Wuhan University since 1995 as an associate professor(1997), professor(1999),Second-level professor(2011) and Luo Jia Distinguished Professor(2014). Mainly engaged in teaching and research of geodesy and geophysics,including gravitational field theory and application,  deep space exploration and polar geodetic survey. Undertook and completed more than 30 national and provincial research projects. Published more than 230 scientific research papers, including more than 110 SCI and 50 EI papers. Supervised and trained more than 90 graduate students including 49 doctoral students.Three scientific expeditions and research trips to Antarctic and Arctic. Won the second prize of National Science and Technology progress.

Education Background

Sep. 1985 - Jun. 1992   Doctor's Degree (Early conversion to be doctoral candidate in 1987), Solid Geophysics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Mar. 1978 - Jul. 1982    Bachelor's Degree, Geophysics, University of Science and Technology of China

Work experience

Aug. 2024 -                Chair Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences,

        Southern Univ. of Science and Technology

Aug. 2000 - Jul. 2024  Professor&Doctoral supervisor, State Key Laboratory of

   Information Engineering of Surveying, Mapping and Remote           Sensing, Wuhan University(Nov. 2011 Second-level

   professor, Jan. 2014 Luo Jia Distinguished Professor)

Jul. 2011 - Dec. 2021  Director of Chinese Antarctic Surveying and Mapping

   Research Center，Wuhan University

        Director of Key Laboratory of Polar Mapping Science,

  Ministry of Natural Resources，Wuhan University

 Aug. 1995 - Jul. 2000  Associate professor,Professor and doctoral supervisor,

Deputy Director,Director of Graduate Department,

Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping

Jul. 1982 - Aug. 1985  Assistant Researcher, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics,

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Academic Service Experience

2022.01-- Director of Committee of Deep Space Remote Sensing and Geomatics,

               Chinese Society for Photogrammetry and Cartography 

2007.11-- Member of Scientific Application Expert Committee of Lunar Exploration of       China 

2024.06-- Vice director of Committee on Digital Poles of Chinese National Committee

               of International Society for Digital Earth(CNISDE-CDP)

2020.08-- Co-chair of the Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information     (SCAGI) of the International Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research   (SCAR)

2016.08-- China’s National Representative of the GeoSciences Group of the     International Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

2018.10-- Director of the Teaching Steering Committee of Geophysics,

  Ministry of Education of China

2019.04-- Member of the Expert Committee of "Top Plan 2.0" ,

  Ministry of Education of China

Member of editorial board of 《Chinese Journal of Geophysics》, 《Progress in Geophysics》, 《Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica》

Research

1. physical geodesy

2. Gravitational fields and internal structures of the moon and planets

3. Polar morphology and sea ice properties  

Publications

(Major papers published in the past 5 years, indexed by SCI\EI and the first or corresponding author is myself or my students)

Researches on  gravity fields and internal structure of lunar and planetary 

[1] Zhang Wensong, Deng Qingyun, Ye Mao, Hao Weifeng, Chen Yihao, Zheng Yingjun, Zhong Zhen, Yan Jianguo, Sun Xuemei, Li Fei. The Ancient Lithospheric Parameters of Impact Basins on the Far Side of the Moon Based on the Mantle and Mare Basalt Load Model[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, 2024, 129(3): e2023JE008006.

[2] Zhang Fengqi, Hao Weifeng, Ye Mao, Tu Zhigang, Li Fei. Automatic Change Detection of Planetary Striped Landform on Mars Surface[J]. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2024, 17, 5884-5898. 

[3] Zheng Yingjun, Hao Weifeng, Ye Mao, Chen Yihao, Zhang Wensong, Li Fei. Construction of a high-quality digital elevation model of the Amundsen crater and landing area selection for future lunar missions[J]. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2024, 17, 1575-1583. 

[4] Zheng Yingjun, Hao Weifeng, Ye Mao, Zhang Wensong, Chen Yihao, Barriot Jean-Pierre, Li Fei. Correcting flawed orbits with significant along-track offset in LOLA data to remove apparent noise in DEM[J]. Journal of Geodesy, 2024, 98, 20. 

[5] Deng Qingyun, Xiao Zhiyong, Zhong Zhen, Ye Mao, Li Fei, Yan Jianguo, Barriot Jean-Pierre. Lithospheric Elastic Thickness Beneath the Caloris Basin: Implications for the Thermal Structure of Mercury[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, 2023, 128(5): e2023JE007796.

[6] Deng Qingyun, Zhong Zhen, Ye Mao, Zhang Wensong, Qiu Denggao, Zheng Chong, Yan Jianguo, Li Fei, Barriot Jean-Pierre. Lithospheric Loading Model for Large Impact Basins Where a Mantle Plug Is Present[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, 2023, 128(6): e2022JE007620. 

[7] Qiu Denggao, Sasaki Sho, Yan Jianguo, Ye Mao, Deng Qingyun, Liang Feng, Liu Lu, Li Fei. Buried Silicic Volcanoes Discovered in the Gruithuisen Region on the Moon[J]. Geophysical Research Letters, 2023, 50(11): e2023GL103336.

[8] Wensong Zhang, Weifeng Hao, Chong Zheng, Mao Ye, Jianguo Yan, Fei Li. An improved altimeter-derived gravity anomaly from shipborne gravity based on the mean sea surface height constraint factors method[J]. Advances in Space Research, 2023, 71 (6)：2909-2923. 

[9] Wensong Zhang, Jianguo Yan, Fei Li. An Improved Coastal Marine Gravity Field Based on the Mean Sea Surface Height Constraint Factor Method[J]. Remote Sensing, 2022, 14(16)：4125-4125.

[10] Chong Zheng, Fei Li, Jianguo Yan, Qingyun Deng, Denggao Qiu, Jean-Pierre Barriot. The potential cryptomaria in Balmer-Kapteyn region revealed by GRAIL data[J]. Planetary and Space Science, 2022, 224: 105598.

[11] D. Qiu, F. Li, J. Yan, X. Wang, W. Gao, Q. Deng, X. Guo. New view of the Balmer-Kapteyn region: Cryptomare distribution and formation[J]. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022, 659, A4.

[12] Denggao Qiu, Mao Ye, Jianguo Yan, Chong Zheng, Xiao Zhiyong, Qing Zhang, Wutong Gao,      Lu Liu, Fei Li. New view of the lunar silicic volcanism in the Mons Hansteen: Formation and origins[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planet, 2022, 127(8): e2022JE007289.

[13] Deng Qingyun, Fei Li, Jianguo Yan, Mao Ye, Jean-Pierre Barriot. Degree-Depth Relation for Planetary Gravity Field Model Based on Wavelength[J]. Earth and Space Science, 2022, 9(5): e2021EA002143.

[14] Chi Xiao, Yunlong Wu, Jianguo Yan, Yuji Harada, Yi Zhang, Fei Li. Comparison of the Effects of Different Viscoelastic and Temperature Models on the Theoretical Tidal Response of the Moon[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2022, 127(12)：1-17.

[15] Luo Yaowen, Yan Jianguo, McClure Stephen C., Li Fei. Socioeconomic and environmental factors of poverty in China using geographically weighted random forest regression model[J]. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022, 29(22): 33205-33217.

[16] Luo Yaowen, Li Fei, Yan Jianguo, Barriot Jean Pierre. Strong Spatial Aggregation of Martian Surface Temperature Shaped by Spatial and Seasonal Variations in Meteorological and Environmental Factors[J]. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2022, 22(1): 015015.

[17] Li Fei, Zheng Chong, Ye Mao, Hao Weifeng, Deng Qingyun, Zhang Wensong, Zheng Yingjun, Yan Jianguo, Jean-Pierre Barriot. The lunar shape and its gravity field[J]. Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica, 2022,51(06):897-908.

[18] Xiao C, Li F, Yan J, Gregoire M，Barriot J. Possible Deep Structure and Composition of Venus with Respect to the Current Knowledge from Geodetic Data[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2021, e2019JE006243.

[19] Hao Weifeng, Ye Mao, Yan Jianguo, Li Fei. Difference of normal gravity characteristics between the Moon and the Earth and its causes[J]. Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 2021, 64(7): 2417-2425.

[20] Chen Yihao, Yan Jianguo, Li Fei, Yang Xuan. Orbital Evolution of Mars Probes Using Gravity Field Model MRO120D[J]. Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University(in Chinese), 2021,46(6):880-886.

[21] He Qingbao, Yang Yongzhang, Li Fei, Yan Jianguo, Chen Yihao.Using cross correlation to estimate Doppler frequency[J].Advances in Space Research,2020,65(7):1772-1780.

[22] Deng Qingyun，Li Fei，Yan Jianguo，Xiao Zhiyong，Ye Mao，Xiao Chi，Barriot Jean-Pierre.The Thermal Evolution of Mercury Over the Past similar to 4.2 Ga as Revealed by Relaxation States of Mantle Plugs Beneath Impact Basins[J]. Geophysical Research Letters, 2020, 47(20):e2020GL089051.

[23] Jin W T, Li F, Yan J G, Andert T P，Barriot J P. A simulated global GM estimate of the asteroid 469219 Kamo ‘oalewa for China’s future asteroid mission[J]. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020, 493(3): 4012-4021.

[24] Feng P, Li F, Yan J, Zhang F, Barriot J P. Assessment of the Accuracy of the Saastamoinen Model and VMF1/VMF3 Mapping Functions with Respect to Ray-Tracing from Radiosonde Data in the Framework of GNSS Meteorology[J]. Remote Sensing, 2020,12(20), 3337.

[25] Xiao Chi, Li Fei, Yan Janguo, et, al. Inversion of Venus Internal Structure based on Geodetic Data[J]. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020, 20(8): 127.

[26] Liu Shanhong, Yan Jianguo, Ye Mao, Li Fei. Contributions of Chinese VLBI Network to the Low Degree Coefficients of the Jupiter Gravity Field[J]. Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University（in chinese）, 2020,45(06):862-869.

[27] Hao Weifeng，Zhu Chang，Li Fei，Yan Jianguo，Ye Mao, Barriot Jean-Pierre. Illumination and communication conditions at the Mons Rumker region based on the improved Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter data[J]. Planetary and Space Science, 2019, 168: 73-82.

[28] Li Fei, Shao Xianyuan, Qu Chunkai, Yan Jianguo, Hao Weifeng, Ye Mao, Yang Xuan, Jin Weitong. Solution and Analysis of Earth Orientation Parameters with 2006-2015 VLBI Observation[J]. Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University(in chinese), 2019, 44(11): 1581-1587.

[29] Yang X, Yan J G, Andert T, Ye M，Ptzold M，Hahn M，Jin W T，Li F，Barriot J P. The second-degree gravity coefficients of Phobos from two Mars Express flybys[J]. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019, 490(2): 2007-2012.

Researches on polar geodesy

[1] Hu Anxun, Hao Weifeng, Ma Chao, Fan Yi, Gao Shengjun, Cheng Qing, Li Fei. The spatio-temporal distribution of the albedos and its relationship with glacier mass balance in the glaciers of the Greater Caucasus Mountains[J]. Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 2024, 67(4): 1314-1329.

[2] Fan Yi, Hao Weifeng, Ma Chao, Gao Shengjun, Li Fei. Identification and Activity of Subglacial Lakes Beneath the Mercer and Whillans Ice Streams and Slessor Glacier[J]. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2023, 61, 10359-10368.  

[3] Chuya Wang, Yuande Yang, Shijin Wang, Songtao Ai, Yanjun Che, Junhao Wang, Leiyu Li, Fei Li. Seasonal glacier change revealed from the real-time monitoring platform on Baishui River Glacier No. 1 in Yulong Snow Mountain, Southeastern Qinghai–Tibet plateau. Annals of Glaciology， Published online 2023:1-11. doi:10.1017/aog.2023.48

[4] Shengjun Gao, Weifeng Hao, Yi Fan, Fei Li, Jing Wang. A Multi-Source GRACE Fusion Solution via Uncertainty Quantification of GRACE-Derived Terrestrial Water Storage (TWS) Change. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2023, 128(11): e2023JB026908. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026908

[5] Li Wenhao，Lei Jintao, Shum C. K.，Li Fei，Zhang Shengkai，Shu Chanfang, Chen Wei.Unraveling the contributions of atmospheric rivers on Antarctica crustal deformation and its spatiotemporal distribution during the past decade[J]. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023, 295:113701. 

[6] Li Jingming, Li Wenhao, Shum C. K., Li Fei, Zhang Shengkai, Lei Jintao. Unraveling the contributions of atmospheric rivers on Antarctica crustal deformation and its spatiotemporal distribution during the past decade[J]. Geophysical Journal International, 2023, 235(2): 1325-1338.

[7] Li Wenhao, Fei Li, C.K. Shum, Chanfang Shu, Feng Ming, Shengkai Zhang, Qingchuan Zhang, and Wei Chen.  Assessment of Contemporary Antarctic GIA Models Using High-Precision GPS Time Series[J]. Remote Sensing, 2022, 14, 1070. 

[8] Fan Yi, Hao Weifeng, Zhang Baojun, Ma Chao, Gao Shengjun, Shen Xiao, Li Fei. Monitoring the Hydrological Activities of Antarctic Subglacial Lakes Using CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 Altimetry Data[J]. Remote Sensing, 2022, 14, 898. 

[9] Yang Yuande, Li Fei. The absolute gravity measurements from A10 along the 1240 km route in East Antarctica[J]. Science China-Earth Sciences, 2022, 65(12):2417-2420. 

[10] Ma Chao, Hao Weifeng, Cheng Qing, Luo Jie, Li Fei. Quality Evaluation of GLASS Albedo Products and Albedo Variation Trends Analysis in Greenland[J]. Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University(in chinese), 2022,47(11):1917-1926.

[11] Zhou Lei, Yang Yuande, Hao Weifeng, Li Fei, Yan Peng. Gravity anomaly characteristics of sedimentary basin of Weddell Sea in Antarctica[J]. Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 2022,65(05):1732-1741.

[12]Xiao F, Zhang S K, Li J X, Geng T, Xuan Y, Li F.   Arctic sea ice thickness variations from CryoSat-2 satellite altimetry data[J]. SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, 2021, 64(7):  1080-1089. 

[13] Li Fei, Guo Yunxi, Zhang Yu, Zhu Tingting, Zhang Shengkai. Grounding line extraction in the Amery ice shelf, Antarctic using fusion of CryoSar-2 altimetry data and Landsat 8 optical data[J]. Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 2020,63(11):3981-3995. 

[14] LI Fei, MA Chao, ZHANG Shengkai, LEI Jintao, HAO Weifeng, ZHANG Qingchuan, LI Wenhao. Evaluation of the glacial isostatic adjustment(GIA) models for Antarctica based on GPS vertical velocities[J].Science China(Earth Sciences),2020,63(04):575-590. 

[15] Lei Jintao, Chen Wu, Li Zhao, Li Fei, Zhang Shengkai. A Full-Spectrum Bedrock Thermal Expansion Model and Its Impact on the Global Positioning System Height Time Series[J]. Geophysical Research Letters, 2020, 47(1): e2019GL086022. 

[16] Yan Peng, Li Zhiwei, Li Fei, Yang Yuandei, Li Wenhao. Antarctic ice-sheet structures retrieved from P-wave coda autocorrelation method and comparisons with two other single-station passive seismic methods[J]. Journal of Glaciology, 2020, 66(255): 153-165. 

[17] Zhang Qingchuan, Li Fei, Zhang Shengkai, Li Wenhao.Modeling and Forecasting the GPS Zenith Troposphere Delay in West Antarctica Based on Different Blind Source Separation Methods and Deep Learning[J].Sensors, 2020, 20(8): 2343.

[18] Li Fei, Zhang Qingchuan, Zhang Shengkai, Lei Jintao, Li Wenhao. Evaluation of Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Different Zenith Tropospheric Delay Models in Antarctica[J]. Radio Science,2020,55(5): e2019RS006909. 

[19] Li Wenhao, Shum C. K., Li Fei, Zhang Shengkai, Ming Feng, Chen Wei, Zhang Bao, Lei  Jintao, Zhang Qingchuan.Contributions of Greenland GPS Observed Deformation From Multisource Mass Loading Induced[J]. Geophysical Research Letters, 2020, 47(15): e2020GL088627. 

[20] Zhang Qingchuan, Li Fei, Lei Jintao, Zhang Shengkai, Ding Zhuoming, Chen Wu, Li Wenhao.Freeboard height and snow depth observed by floating GPS on land-fast sea ice in Nella Fjord, Antarctica[J]. Annals of Glaciology, 2020, 61(82):227-239. 

[21] Ke Hao, Li Fei, Ai Songtao, Lei Jintao, Zhang Shengkai. Establishment of chart datum and vertical datum transformation for hydrography in the Chinese Great Wall Bay, Antarctic Peninsula[J]. Journal of Surveying Engineering, 2020, 146(2): 05020003.

[22] Xiao Feng, Li Fei, Zhang Shengkai, Hao Weifeng, Geng Tong, Xuan Yue. DEM generation for the Lambert Glacier-Amery Ice Shelf system, East Antarctica, from CryoSat-2 waveform data[J]. Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 2020, 63(08): 2893-2900.

[23] Xiao F, Li F, Zhang S, Li J, Geng T, Xuan Y.  Estimating Arctic Sea Ice Thickness with CryoSat-2 Altimetry Data Using the Least Squares Adjustment Method[J]. Sensors, 2020, .20(24): 7011.

[24] Yang Yuande, Li Fei, Hwang Cheinway, DingMinghu, Ran Jiangjun. Space-Time Evolution of Greenland Ice Sheet Elevation and Mass From Envisat and GRACE Data[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 2019, 124(8): 2079-2100.

[25] Kong Jian, Li Fei, Yao Yibin, Wang Zemin, Peng Wenjie, Zhang Qi. Reconstruction of 2D/3D ionospheric disturbances in high-latitude and arctic regions during a geomagnetic storm using GNSS carrier TEC: a case study of the 2015 great storm[J]. Journal of Geodesy, 2019, 93(9): 1529-1541.

[26] Ji Fei, Li Fei, Zhang Qiao, Gao Jinyao, Hao Weifeng, Li Yongdong, Guan Qingsheng, Lin Xing. Crustal density structure of the Antarctic continent from constrained 3-D gravity inversion[J]. Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 2019, 62(3): 849-863.

[27] KE Hao, YANG Yuande, LI Fei, WANG Zemin, SUN Bo, E Dongchen, JIN Bo, DING Minghu. Re-establishment of ice-surface velocity field and snow surface elevation change around Dome Argus, East Antarctica[J]. Annals of Glaciology, 2019, 60（78）：1-7. 

[28] Li Fei, Li Wenhao, Zhang Shengkai, Lei Jintao, Zhang Qingchuan, Yuan Lexian. Spatiotemporal filtering for regional GNSS network in Antarctic Peninsula using independent component analysis[J]. Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 2019,62(9): 3279-3295.

[29] LIU Yihui, LI Fei, HAO Weifeng, Barriot Jean-Pierre, WANG Yetang. Evaluation of Synoptic Snowfall on the Antarctic Ice Sheet Based on CloudSat, In-Situ Observations and Atmospheric Reanalysis Datasets[J]. Remote Sensing, 2019, 1686. 

[30] LI Wenhao, LI Fei, ZHANG Shengkai, LEI Jintao, ZHANG Qingchuan, YUAN Lexian. Spatiotemporal Filtering and Noise Analysis for Regional GNSS Network in Antarctica Using Independent Component Analysis[J]. Remote Sensing, 2019, 11, 386.