Chun Shen

Chun Shen

Associate Professor

631-889-9367

chunshen@wayne.edu

341 Physics Research Building

Curriculum vitae

Website(s)

chunshen1987.github.io

go.wayne.edu/chunshen-youtube

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Department

Physics and Astronomy

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

 

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Selected publications

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

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Courses taught by Chun Shen

Winter Term 2024

Fall Term 2023

Fall Term 2022