Jingfang Fan

Jingfang Fan

Professor, Director, Ph.D. Supervisor · School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University

Professor and Dean of School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University; Visiting Professor at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Ph.D. from Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS (2014); postdoc in Israel, Germany, USA. Awarded 2020 Overseas High-Level Talent Youth Program (CPC Central Committee), 2024/2025 NSFC grants. 80+ papers, 40+ in Nat. Phys. etc., many ESI highly cited. Honors: Israel PBC Fellow, CMStatistics Fellow.

Email jingfang@bnu.edu.cn Phone +86 10 58800116

Research Interests

Statistical Physics and Complex SystemsEarth System Tipping-Point AnalysisNetwork Science and Nonlinear DynamicsClimate Change and PredictionAI Theory and Applications
Highlights

Recent Highlights

Enhancing the Predictability Limits of ENSO with Physics-Guided Deep Echo State Networks
Forecast 2026-04-01

Enhancing the Predictability Limits of ENSO with Physics-Guided Deep Echo State Networks

A real-time ENSO forecasting workflow based on ORAS5 and DESN, showing climate-mode construction, ensemble training, and Niño3.4 predictions for 2026-2027.

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Self-Organized Criticality in Atmospheric Rivers
Latest Paper 2026-03-02

Self-Organized Criticality in Atmospheric Rivers

Starting from the theory of critical dynamics in statistical physics, it reveals that atmospheric rivers, as key water vapor transport structures in the Earth climate system, have the essential property of self-organized criticality.

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Tropical monsoon rainfall can be predicted with lead times up to 10 months
Latest Paper 2025-06-18

Tropical monsoon rainfall can be predicted with lead times up to 10 months

Presents methods and evidence showing tropical monsoon rainfall can be predicted with lead times up to 10 months, published in Communications Earth & Environment.

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Publications

Recent Publications

Physical Review Letters · 2026

Self-Organized Criticality in Atmospheric Rivers

S Wang, J Meng, S Fang, T Liu, K Christensen, J Kurths, J Fan

Physical Review Letters , 136(9) : 094-201 (2026)

National Science Review · 2026

The domino effect of climate tipping points: a multidisciplinary perspective on global risks

J Meng, D Chen

National Science Review : nwag042 (2026)

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science · 2026

Predicting ENSO dynamics with network and complexity analyses

J Ludescher, J Meng, J Fan, A Bunde, HJ Schellnhuber

Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science , 36(2) (2026)

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Contact

Contact & Collaboration

Address
Room 9911, Jingshi Building, Beijing Normal University
Postal code
100875
Phone
+86 10 58800116
Email
jingfang@bnu.edu.cn • j.fang.fan@gmail.com • jingfang@pik-potsdam.de
Graduate admissions
https://sss.bnu.edu.cn/yjszsztw/