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Feng Fu Envisions a Field of 'Mathematical Humanities' | Dartmouth

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“My PhD examined how to promote cooperation in the most general sense, using very theoretical mathematical models to look at how to prompt people to be kind to each other,” he says. Fu, who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English, and has some German, earned his PhD from Peking University while doing his dissertation research at Harvard. After receiving his doctorate, he continued at Harvard as a postdoc and then as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School. He then became a senior postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, a science, technology, engineering and mathematics university in Zurich, Switzerland. He left ETH Zurich in 2015 to join the Dartmouth faculty. Fu says he was interested in math from his early years growing up in China’s Jiangsu Province, and he began his university studies at Fudan University in Shanghai with the intention of studying fluid dynamics. Then, during his doctoral work, his focus shifted. “I became more and more interested in looking at complex systems.

At the root of Assistant Professor Feng Fu’s work is the mathematics of altruism. “My PhD examined how to promote cooperation in the most general sense, using very theoretical mathematical models to look at how to prompt people to be kind to each other,” he says. Fu, who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English, and has some German, earned his PhD from Peking University while doing his dissertation research at Harvard. After receiving his doctorate, he continued at Harvard as a postdoc and then as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School. He then became a senior postdoctoral researcher…

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