Chun Shen (gf8206)
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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
341 Physics Research Building
- 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
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.
- Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2014
- B.Sc., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 2009
- 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
All my papers can be accessed on the INSPIRE or Google Scholar.
- 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
Fall Term 2022
Recent university news spotlights
- Academic Recognition Ceremony celebrates faculty, staff excellence
- Wayne State physics professors awarded Department of Energy AI development grant
- Physics researchers make breakthrough in the simulation of relativistic heavy-ion collision dynamics
- Atomic research helps pave the way for new discoveries in nuclear physics