Podcast Guest Biographies

EP. 3: Jonathan Feng, PhD - Dark Matter Physicist at UC Irvine

Our guest on Christian Podcast Episode #3, is Professor Jonathan Feng, PhD whos is a physicist UCI.

In our interview, he discusses his work as a physics and astronomy professor at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) as well as how his Christian faith informs his view of the universe and God’s “wonders” of Creation.

Prof. Feng holds degrees in both physics and mathematics from Cambridge, Stanford, and Harvard Universities.

In particular, Prof. Feng studies the mysteries of new particles and dark matter.

Most recently, Professor Feng is known for being part of a team installing a new dark matter detector (FASER) at the highly sought-after CERN Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. He and his team’s innovative design may yield important new discoveries in the search for dark matter.

Prof. Feng and team also summarized key findings from Hungarian scientists who may have discovered a “fifth force” of nature. If confirmed, Feng says the Hungarian team deserves a Nobel Prize.

In 2001, Prof. Feng joined the UC Irvine faculty and was appointed Professor and Chancellor's Fellow in 2006. At UCI, he helped develop QuarkNet, a program designed to bring the excitement of frontier research to local high school physics teachers and their students.

Prof. Feng has been recognized by many awards, including the UCI's Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Research, the Outstanding Young Researcher Award, the NSF CAREER Award.

He is also a frequent speaker at conferences and he does travel around and his work and he's been covered many times in places like USA Today, Science Nature, Washington Post. And on top of all that he's a devout Christian and he's also been on some of the front lines with the discussions in the intersections of faith and science and as a writer and speaker including The Veritas Forum.