Bio：
Wenbin Zhao is currently a professor at Central China Normal University. His research focuses on the theory and phenomenology of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. He has achieved a series of innovative results in QGP probes, nuclear matter structure, and gluon properties: he developed a hadronization model that resolved the long-standing challenge of simultaneously describing nuclear suppression factors and collective flow; systematically revealed QGP signals and properties in small systems; and advanced new methods for probing the multiscale structure of nuclear matter. He has published 27 papers in top-tier journals such as Physical Review Letters, with total citations exceeding one thousand. He has been invited to deliver numerous presentations at international conferences, leads collaborative research projects, and has received multiple prestigious awards and funding support.

Education:
Sep 2015 – Jun 2020: Ph.D. in Physics, Peking University
Sep 2012 – Jun 2015: B.S. in Physics, Northwest University

Work Experience:
Oct 2025 – Present: Professor, Central China Normal University
Oct 2023 – Sep 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
Oct 2022 – Sep 2023: Postdoctoral Researcher, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Nov 2021 – Sep 2023: Postdoctoral Researcher, Wayne State University, USA
Sep 2020 – Sep 2021: Research Assistant, Central China Normal University

Honors and Awards:
2025: RHIC&AGS Award, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
2022: Postdoctoral Outstanding Research Award, Wayne State University
2020: Outstanding Graduate, Peking University

Recent Publications (5 years):
1. Y. Guo*, F. Yuan* and W. Zhao*, ``Factorization and Resummation for the Nearside Energy-Energy Correlators,'' [arXiv:2507.15820], (Accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett.).
2. H. Mantysaari, B. Schenke, C. Shen and W. Zhao*, ``Collision-Energy Dependence in Heavy-Ion Collisions from Nonlinear QCD Evolution,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 135 (2025) no.2, 022302.
3. Y. Guo*, F. Yuan* and W. Zhao*, ``Bayesian Inferring Nucleon Gravitational Form Factors via Near-Threshold J/\psi Photoproduction,'' Phys. Rev. Lett.  135 (2025) no.11, 111902.
4. G. Giacalone*, W. Zhao*, B. Bally, S. Shen, T. Duguet, J. P. Ebran, S. Elhatisari, M. Frosini, T. A. Lahde and D. Lee, et al. ``Anisotropic Flow in Fixed-Target Pb208+Ne20 Collisions as a Probe of Quark-Gluon Plasma,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 (2025) no.8, 082301.
5. C. Shen*, B. Schenke and W. Zhao, ``Viscosities of the Baryon-Rich Quark-Gluon Plasma from Beam Energy Scan Data,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 132 (2024) no.7, 072301.
6. H. Mantysaari, B. Schenke, C. Shen and W. Zhao*, ``Multiscale Imaging of Nuclear Deformation at the Electron-Ion Collider,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 131 (2023) no.6, 062301.
7. W. Zhao*, C. Shen and B. Schenke, ``Collectivity in Ultraperipheral Pb+Pb Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 129 (2022) no.25, 252302.
8. W. Zhao, W. Ke, W. Chen, T. Luo and X. N. Wang*, ``From Hydrodynamics to Jet Quenching, Coalescence, and Hadron Cascade: A Coupled Approach to Solving the RAA-v2 Puzzle,'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 128 (2022) no.2, 022302.
9. W. Zhao, C. M. Ko, Y. X. Liu, G. Y. Qin and H. Song*, ``Probing the Partonic Degrees of Freedom in High-Multiplicity p-Pb collisions at 5.02  TeV,' ' Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 (2020) no.7, 072301.