Education:
1982: B.Sc. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
1990: Ph.D. in Physics, Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNY), USA

Work Experience:
2001: Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
2002: Specially Appointed Professor, Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
2010: Professor, College of Physical Science and Technology, Central China Normal University (CCNU)
2015: Chief Scientist, National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST)
2015: Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), India
2018: Research Professor, Quark Matter Research Center, Institute of Modern Physics (IMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
2018: Chief Scientist, Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
2020: Chief Scientist, National Major Research Instrument Development Project, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
2008–2014: Spokesperson, STAR Collaboration, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), USA
2009: Advisor, FAIR Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Germany
2009: Advisor, High Energy Physics Centre, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Russia
2014: Senior Editor, Nuclear Physics A (Journal), Netherlands
2017: President, World Association of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers (WACPA)
2018: Chair, CBM Collaboration Council, FAIR, Germany

Awards and Honors:
2003: National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Category B), NSFC, China
2004: Fellow, Institute of Physics (IOP), UK
2009: Fellow, American Physical Society (APS), USA
2010: Thousand Talents Plan (Class A), China
2017: Hundred Talents Program (Class A), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
2018: Member, Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)
2022: Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
2023: Honorary Doctorate, University of Bucharest, Romania

Profile:
Nu Xu is currently a Professor at Central China Normal University (CCNU) and a Senior Research Professor at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Over his more than three-decade career in experimental high-energy nuclear physics, he has developed and utilized advanced experimental observables, including collective flow, higher-order fluctuations, and two-particle correlations. His research is dedicated to investigating the phase structure of strongly interacting nuclear matter, establishing experimental evidence for the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), and searching for the critical point in the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) phase transition. His work has significantly advanced the development of experimental high-energy nuclear physics and detector technologies both in China and internationally.

REPRESENTATIVE SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS：
1. S. Gupta, X. Luo, B. Mohanty, H. G. Ritter, N. Xu, “Scale for the Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics”, Science 332, 1525 (2011).
2. X. Luo and Nu Xu, “Search for the QCD critical point with fluctuations of conserved quantities in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC: An Overview”, Nucl. Sci. Tech. 28, 112 (2017).
3. A. Bzdak, S. Esumi, V. Koch, M. Stephanov, and N. Xu, “Mapping the Phases of Quantum Chromodynamics with Beam Energy Scan”, Physics Report 853, 1 (2020).
4. M.S. Abdallah et al., [STAR Collaboration], “Disappearance of Partonic Collectivity in 3 GeV Au + Au Collisions at RHIC”, Phys. Lett. B827, 137003 (2021).
5. J. Adam et al., [STAR Collaboration], “Non-monotonic energy dependence of net-proton number fluctuations”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 092301 (2021).
6. S. Gupta, D. Mallick, D.K. Mishra, B. Mohanty and N. Xu, “Limits of thermalization in relativistic heavy ion collisions”, Phys. Lett. B829, 137021 (2021).
7. “Properties of QCD Matter at High Baryon Density”，Editors Xiaofeng Luo, Qun Wang, Nu Xu, Pengfei Zhuang, Springer,  ISBN:978-981-19-4441-3, 2022.
8. M.S. Abdallah et al., [STAR Collaboration], “Measurements of Proton High Order Cumulants in 3 GeV Au + Au Collisions and Implications for the QCD Critical Point”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 202303 (2022).
9. M.S. Abdallah et al., [STAR Collaboration], “First Observation of Directed Flow of Hypernuclei 3HL and 4HL in 3 GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 212301 (2023).
10. M. I. Abdulhamid et al., [STAR Collaboration], “Strangeness Production in 3 GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC”, JHEP 2024, 139 (2024).
11. [STAR Collaboration], “Precision Measurement of (Net-) proton Number Fluctuations in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC”, arXiv: 2504.0081