Chun Shen

Chun Shen

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• Precision fluid dynamical modelling of quark-gluon plasma at finite baryon density
• Electromagnetic tomography in strongly-coupled systems
• Rapid thermalization and out-of-equilibrium physics of many-body QCD
• Multi-scale imaging of proton and nucleus at high energy

Research

I am interested in understanding strongly interacting many-body systems, in particular, the properties of nuclear matter under extreme hot and dense conditions.

The relativistic heavy-ion collisions create a novel state of matter, Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), which exposes surprisingly strong collective behavior with very small specific shear viscosity. In order to quantitative extract the transport properties of the QGP, I work on developing a comprehensive integrated framework, which models the dynamical evolution of the heavy-ion collisions event-by-event. Combining this framework with modern statistical Bayesian analysis, we can reverse engineer the heavy-ion collision experiments and infer the properties of the hottest droplet in nature.

Education

• Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2014
• B.Sc., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 2009

Awards and grants

• DOE Early Career Award (2021 - 2026), "Quantitative Characterization of Quark-Gluon Plasma Properties with Dynamical Fluctuations and small systems"
• DOE AI/ML Grant (Co-PI, 2024-2026), "New approaches to Bayesian uncertainty quantification for Nuclear Science"
• NSF CSSI Grant (Co-PI, 2020-2024), "Frameworks: X-Ion Collisions with a Statistically and Computationally Advanced Program Envelope (X-SCAPE)"
• NSF PHY Grant (PI, 2020-2021), "Quantitative Characterization of Quark-Gluon Plasma Properties with Dynamical Fluctuations"
• Career Developement Chair, 2024-2025
• Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2023
• RIKEN-BNL Rearch Center (RBRC) Fellow, 2018-2023
• IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Nuclear Physics 2019
• Goldhaber Fellow Brookhaven National Lab 2016
• APS Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics 2016

Selected publications

All my papers can be accessed on the INSPIRE or Google Scholar.

Citation index

• Citations: 10569+; h-index: 51
• Statistics from Google Scholar

Courses taught by Chun Shen

Winter Term 2024

• PHY2170 - University Physics for Scientists I
• PHY2175 - University Physics for Engineers I
• PHY8991 - Special Topics

Fall Term 2023

• PHY6500 - Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

Fall Term 2022

• PHY2170 - University Physics for Scientists I
• PHY2175 - University Physics for Engineers I