Chun Shen

Chun Shen is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Wayne State University, Detroit USA, and a joint RIKEN fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from The Ohio State University in 2014. In 2015, Dr. Shen won the APS dissertation award in nuclear physics. He was a postdoc fellow at McGill University in Canada from 2014 to 2016. Then he was awarded the Goldhaber Fellow at Brookhaven National Lab from 2016 to 2018.

Dr. Chun Shen's research is central in understanding strongly interacting many-body systems under extreme conditions. He developed a comprehensive theoretical framework which enables precision studies of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) in the US and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe. He used this framework to extract the transport property of the QGP, namely shear, bulk viscosities, and charge diffusion constants. These transport coefficients elucidate the nature of the QGP at extremely high temperature and density.