Chun Shen
Associate Professor
631-889-9367
Physics and Astronomy, Room 341
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Chun Shen
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
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Precision fluid dynamical modelling of quark-gluon plasma at finite baryon density
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Electromagnetic tomography in strongly-coupled systems
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Rapid thermalization and out-of-equilibrium physics of many-body QCD
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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
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NSF PHY Grant (PI, 2020-2021), "Quantitative Characterization of Quark-Gluon Plasma Properties with Dynamical Fluctuations"
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NSF CSSI Grant (Co-PI, 2020-2024), "Frameworks: X-Ion Collisions with a Statistically and Computationally Advanced Program Envelope (X-SCAPE)"
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RIKEN-BNL Rearch Center (RBRC) Fellow, 2018-2023
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DOE Early Career Award (2021 - 2026), "Quantitative Characterization of Quark-Gluon Plasma Properties with Dynamical Fluctuations and small systems"
Selected publications
All my papers can be accessed on the INSPIRE or Google Scholar.
Citation index
- Citations: 8578+; h-index: 44
- Statistics from Google Scholar
Courses taught by Chun Shen
Winter Term 2024 (current)
- PHY2170 - University Physics for Scientists I
- PHY2175 - University Physics for Engineers I
- PHY8991 - Special Topics