Jingfang Fan

Jingfang Fan

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

Her research mainly focuses on phase-transition critical phenomena and dynamical evolution in statistical physics and complex systems. Building on this foundation, she conducts fundamental research in the frontier interdisciplinary field of the "complex Earth system," spanning physics, Earth science, mathematics, systems science, and information science.
She has developed a series of pioneering frameworks and paradigms for studying climate systems, the topological structure of the Earth's surface, and earthquake prediction. She has achieved internationally influential results in complex-system phase transitions and critical phenomena, as well as in the prediction and impacts of extreme climate events.

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 ENSO PredictionAI Theory and Applications
Highlights

Recent Highlights

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

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

Complex-systems methods reveal predictable signals in monsoon rainfall, opening a longer window for regional climate-risk warning.

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Complexity science meets Earth system
Review 2025-01-10

Complexity science meets Earth system

A perspective on how critical phenomena, network methods, and climate prediction connect across complexity science and Earth-system research.

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Teleconnections among tipping elements in the Earth system
Earth System 2023-10-20

Teleconnections among tipping elements in the Earth system

A quantitative framework for understanding interactions and cascade risks among Earth-system tipping elements.

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News

Recent News

2026-01-01 Grant

Project on phase transitions and critical phenomena in complex climate systems supported by NSFC Young Scientists Fund (Type A)

2024-12-01 Honor

Elected as a CMStatistics Fellow

Publications

Selected Publications

Nature Physics · 2020

Universal gap scaling in percolation

Jingfang Fan*, Jun Meng, Yang Liu, Abbas Ali Saberi, Jürgen Kurths, Jan Nagler

Nature Physics , 16(4) : 455–461 (2020)

Nature Communications · 2023

Arctic weather variability and connectivity

Jun Meng, Jingfang Fan*, Uma S. Bhatt, Jürgen Kurths

Nature Communications , 14 : 6574–6585 (2023)

Nature Climate Change · 2023

Teleconnections among tipping elements in the Earth system

Teng Liu, Dean Chen, Lan Yang, Jun Meng, Zanchenling Wang, Josef Ludescher, Jingfang Fan*, Saini Yang, Deliang Chen, Jürgen Kurths, Xiaosong Chen, Shlomo Havlin, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Nature Climate Change , 13(1) : 67–74 (2023)

PNAS · 2018

Climate network percolation reveals the expansion and weakening of the tropical component under global warming

Jingfang Fan*, Jun Meng, Yosef Ashkenazy, Shlomo Havlin, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

PNAS , 115(52) : E12128–E12134 (2018)

PNAS · 2017

Network analysis reveals strongly localized impacts of El Niño

Jingfang Fan, Jun Meng, Yosef Ashkenazy, Shlomo Havlin, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

PNAS , 114(29) : 7543–7548 (2017)

PNAS · 2020

Complexity-based approach for El Niño magnitude forecasting before the spring predictability barrier

Jun Meng, Jingfang Fan*#, Josef Ludescher, Ankit Agarwal, Xiaosong Chen, Armin Bunde, Juergen Kurths, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

PNAS , 117(1) : 177–183 (2020)

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Contact

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