Associate Professors
ZHU Xianglei
Associate Professor

Ph.D.

Tel: +86-10-627-83918

Email: zhux@ tsinghua.edu.cn

Educational Background

2001.9 – 2007.7, PhD in Science, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University

2001.9 – 2007.7, PhD in Science, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University
Supervised by: Prof. Pengfei Zhuang

2004.9 – 2006.8, Visiting Student Researcher, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Supervised by: Prof. Horst Stöcker and Prof. Marcus Bleicher

1997.8 – 2001.7, Bachelor of Science in Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University


Work Experience

2022.8 – Present, Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University

2016.8 –2022.7, Tenure-Track Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University

2012.12 –2016.8, Associate Research Professor, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University

2009.10 –2012.11, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University

2009.3 –2009.6, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

2008.2 –2008.9, Visiting Scholar, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

2007.9 –2009.9, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University


Teaching work

2018 – Present, Co-instructor for undergraduate foundational course “Fundamental Physics I, II, III”

2011 – Present, Primary instructor for graduate core course “Particle Physics”

2015 – 2017, Co-instructor for undergraduate foundational course “General Physics III”

Student Supervision: supervised 9 PhD graduates, mentored 2 Master's graduates, currently advising 5 doctoral candidates


Research Field

My primary research lies in experimental high-energy heavy-ion physics. I participate in major international collaborations, such as the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's RHIC collider. My work involves analyzing heavy-ion collision data to investigate quantum chromodynamics phase transitions, and to study the properties of matter under extremely high temperature (over 2 trillion Kelvin) or baryon densities (over 5 times that of atomic nuclei).


Research Situation

“Intermediate and High-Energy Nuclear Physics”, NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund, 2017-2019, Principal Investigator
“Production Analysis of Strange Particles in 200GeV d+Au Collisions at STAR Experiment”, NSFC Young Scientists Fund, 2010-2012, Principal Investigator
“Research on Strong Interaction Properties via STAR Experiment”, MOE National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Author Funding, 2010-2014, Principal Investigator
“Data Analysis of Heavy-Flavor Hadron Production in RHIC/STAR Experiments”, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2008-2010, Principal Investigator
Additionally served as key member in multiple NSFC Major Programs, Key Programs, International Cooperation Projects, and MOST Key R&D Programs.


Academic Achievements

Representative papers:
1. “Measurement of the multiplicity dependence of Υ production ratios in pp collisions at = 13 TeV”, JHEP 05, 011 (2025), LHCb Collaboration.

2. “Observation of strangeness enhancement with charmed mesons in high-multiplicity pPb collisions at = 8.16 TeV”, Phys. Rev. D 110, L031105 (2024), LHCb Collaboration.

3. “Multiplicity dependence of in pp collisions at = 13 TeV”, JHEP 05, 243 (2024), LHCb Collaboration.

4. “Measurement of -pair production in pp collisions at = 13 TeV and study of gluon transverse-momentum dependent PDFs”, JHEP 03, 088 (2024), LHCb Collaboration.

5. “Measurement of prompt and production in pPb collisions at = 5.02 TeV”, JHEP 01, 070 (2024), LHCb Collaboration.

6. “Measurement of the prompt nuclear modification factor in pPb collisions at = 8.16 TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 102301 (2023), LHCb Collaboration.

7. “Measurement of sequential suppression in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV with the STAR experiment”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 112301 (2023), STAR Collaboration.

8. “Flow and interferometry results from Au+Au collisions at = 4.5 GeV”, Phys. Rev. C 103, 034908 (2021), STAR Collaboration.

9. “Strange hadron production in Au+Au collisions at = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, and 39 GeV”, Phys. Rev. C 102, 034909 (2020), STAR Collaboration.

10. “Bulk Properties of the Medium Produced in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions from the Beam Energy Scan Program”, Phy. Rev. C 96, 044904 (2017), STAR Collaboration.



Part-time Academic Job

2019-current, Co-convener of “Spectra of Light Flavor and Hypernuclei” physics working group, MPD Collaboration

2012-current, Embedding Coordinator, STAR Collaboration

2018-current, Council member, STAR Collaboration

2012-2014, Co-convener of “Light Flavor Spectra” physics working group, STAR Collaboration

2010-2012, Embedding Deputy, STAR Collaboration


Award honors

2025, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (as member of LHCb Collaboration), Breakthrough Prize Foundation

2015, Second Prize of Natural Science Award (3rd contributor), Ministry of Education, China

2009, Award of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of P.R. China, Ministry of Education, China

2007, Yu-Hsun WOO Prize, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University


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