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Chen, Lin

Bio

I got my BSc in Mathematics and Physics at the University of the South Pacific in 2012, and continued there with postgraduate studies in mathematics before moving to physics. I then obtained my MSc in 2017 and my PhD in 2021 at Central China Normal University. Afterwards, I made a postdoctoral stay at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen in the period 2021–2023. I then moved to IGFAE at USC as a postdoctoral fellow, and since 2025 I am Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow here. I am a theoretical physicist working on QCD in high-energy hadronic and nuclear collisions. My research focuses on the following directions. First, I study jet quenching and related heavy-ion phenomenology, aiming at a quantitative description of parton energy loss and medium-induced modifications of hard probes in the quark–gluon plasma. Second, I work on small-x forward physics and saturation dynamics, analysing parton evolution and high-density effects in proton–nucleus collisions. Third, I investigate electromagnetic processes in heavy-ion collisions, in particular the photo-production of dileptons, using tools such as Wigner distributions to characterise photon-induced reactions. Fourth, I study jet substructure and parton-shower evolution, combining perturbative QCD and resummation techniques to understand the internal structure and multiplicity patterns of QCD jets. These aspects are explored in the context of measurements at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, with the goal of strengthening the connection between QCD theory and collider observables.

Recent Projects

  • Probing nuclear parton dynamics in Heavy-Ion Collisions with Hard Probes HIC-HP
  • Probing nuclear parton dynamics in Heavy-Ion Collisions with Hard Probes HIC-HP