Bio

Ben-Wei Zhang is currently the director of the Science and Technology Department of Central China Normal University, the vice chairman of the Hubei Provincial Physical Society, and the executive director of the Chinese Nuclear Physics Society. From February 2005 to April 2006, he was a Humboldt Scholar at the University of Regensburg, Germany, a postdoctoral fellow at Texas A&M University from May 2006 to August 2007, a visiting scholar at the Department of Theory at Los Alamos National Laboratory from February 2008 to February 2010, and a senior visiting scholar at the Department of Nuclear Theory at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from September 2012 to February 2013. His main research field is the theory of high-energy nuclear physics, and he has published more than 100 papers in internationally renowned physics journals and has been cited more than 4,000 times. He has won the first prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education (2018), the "Outstanding Youth" of the National Foundation of China (2013), the New Century Excellent Talent Program of the Ministry of Education (2009), the "First Youth Science and Technology Award" of Wuhan (2008), and the first prize of the Natural Science Award of Hubei Province (2006).

Education

2003， Ph.D. in Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University

2000，M.S. in Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University

1997，B.S. in Central China Normal University

Professional Experience

2024 – present，Director of Science and Technology Department, Central China Normal University

2019.– 2024， Dean, School of Physical Science and Technology, Central China Normal University

2012 – 2013， Senior Visiting Scholar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

2008.– 2010,，Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, visiting and exchange

2006 – 2007， Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Physics, Texas A&M University, USA

2006 – present， Professor, Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University

2005 – 2006 ，Humboldt Scholar, University of Regensburg, Germany

2004 – 2005 ，Associate Professor, Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University

2003 – 2004 ，Lecturer, Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University.

Honors and Awards

2018 Won the First Prize of Natural Science of the Ministry of Education

2013 "Outstanding Youth" of the National Foundation of China.

2010 Selected into the "New Century Excellent Talents" support program of the Ministry of Education.

2008 Won the first "Wuhan Youth Science and Technology Award".

2006 Won the "First Prize of Natural Science of Hubei Province" by Hubei Provincial People’s Government。

2006 Nominated for the "National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award" by the Ministry of Education

2005 Humboldt Scholar Scholarship from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany

2004 Won the "Hubei Provincial Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award" by the Hubei Provincial Department of Education

Recent Publications (5 years)

1. Yao Li, Sa Wang , and Ben-Wei Zhang*, Longitudinal momentum fraction of heavy-flavor mesons in jets in high-energy nuclear collisions,” Phys. Rev. C. 108, 024905 (2023)).

2. Shuwan Shen, Peng Ru , and Ben-Wei Zhang, “Imaging nuclear modifications on parton distributions with triple-differential dijet cross sections in proton-nucleus collisions,” Phys. Rev. D. 105, 096025 (2022)).

3. Shan-Liang Zhang Meng-Quan Yang and Ben-Wei Zhang*, “Parton splitting scales of reclustered large-radius jets in high-energy nuclear collisions,” Eur. Phys. J. C. 82, no.414, (2022).

4. Shi-Yong Chen Wei Dai ,Shan-Liang Zhang Qing Zhang and Ben-Wei Zhang, “The global geometrical property of jet events in high-energy nuclear collisions,” Eur. Phys. J. C.. 80, no865, (2020).

5. Sa Wang Wei Dai , Ben-Wei Zhang ,and Enke Wang*, “Diffusion of charm quarks in jets in high-energy heavy-ion collisions” Eur. Phys. J. C.. 79, no.789, (2019.

Selected Publications

1. Ben-Wei Zhang, Enke Wang and Xin-Nian Wang , Heavy Quark Energy Loss in Nuclear Medium” Phys.Rev.Lett.. ). 93 072301 (2004

2. Rishi Sharma , Ivan Vitev , and Ben-Wei Zhang*, “Light-cone wave function approach to open heavy flavor dynamics in QCD matter,” Phys.Rev.C 80 ( 054902. ).2009)

3. Ivan Vitev, Simon Wicks, and Ben-Wei Zhang , “A Theory of jet shapes and cross sections: From hadrons to nuclei,” JHEP 11 093 2008

4. Yuncun He, Ivan Vitev , Ben-Wei Zhang O(αs3 Analysis of Inclusive Jet and di-Jet Production in Heavy Ion Reactions at the Large Hadron Collider ”Phys.Lett.B 713 224-232 (2012

5. Ivan Vitev and Ben-Wei Zhang Jet tomography of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions at next-to-leading order,” Phys.Rev.Lett. 104 132001 .2010)