Prof. Dr. Raju Venugopalan

Education
B.S., University of Chicago, June 1987.
Ph.D., Stony Brook, August 1992.

Professional Appointments

Faculty appointments
October 2022-present, Distinguished Scientist
October 2022-present, DIrector, BNL EIC Theory Institute
March 2007-Sept. 2022, Senior Scientist, BNL
March 2009-present, Adjunct Professor, Stony Brook University
October 2016-September 2021, Group Leader, BNL Nuclear Theory
Sept. 2015-Sept. 2016, Excellence Initiative Guest Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany
June 2010-July 2015, Group Leader, BNL Nuclear Theory
Oct.98-March 2007, Asst., Assoc. and Physicist appointments, BNL Awarded Tenure, June 2002

Post-doctoral appointments
September 1992-August 1994, Research Associate, Theoretical Physics Institute, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
September 1994-December 1996, Research Associate, National Institute for Nuclear Theory, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
January 1997-September 1998, Danish Research Council Fellow, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Awards & Recognition
Co-PI of Simons Foundation Collaboration on Confinement and QCD strings
Distinguished Visiting Scientist Grant, Ben-Gurion University, Israel (May-June 2022)
Co-author of Phys. Rev. D 50th Anniversary Milestone Paper (2020):
Suffolk County NY Distinguished Asian American Award (2019)
BNL Science & Technology Award (2018)
Humboldt Research Award ("Humboldt Prize", October 2016 -)
Excellence Initiative Award and Chair, Heidelberg University (2014- 2016); EMMI Visiting Professor (2014)
Fulbright Senior Specialist Award (2012)
Fellow of the American Physical Society (2007-)
A. Von Humboldt Foundation US Research Fellow (2004-2005)
Fellow RIKEN-BNL Research Center (2000-2003)
Univ. of Chicago Undergraduate Scholarship (1984-1987)

Key Appointments/Service
Member, APS Committee on Scientific Meetings (2023-2025)
co-PI SURGE DOE Topical theory collaboration (2022-2027)
Chair, Laboratory Director’s Review Committee of the LBNL Nuclear Science Division (June 2021)
Theory sub-Thrust co-Leader, Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) BNL (2020-2022)
Director’s Review Committee, Tata Institute (TIFR), Mumbai, India (March 2019)
Academy President’s Review Committee, Austrian Academy of Sciences (June 2018)
Co-chair, Steering Committee, Joint BNL/Stony Brook Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science (2018-)
International Advisory Board, INCT-FNA (Brazil), (2017-)
Member, German SFB ISOQUANT Research Collaboration, Heidelberg University (2016-)
Co-PI on BEST and TMD DOE Topical Theory Collaborations (2016-2021)
Laboratory Director's Review Committee of the Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Lab (October 2016)
EMMI (GSI, Germany) Scientific Advisory Committee (2016-2022)
APS Division of Nuclear Physics Executive Committee (2016-2018)
National Advisory Committee, INT Seattle (2015-2017)
Chair-line, APS Topical Group on Hadron Physics (2014-17)
Editor, Annals of Physics (2013-); Editorial College, SciPost (2019-)
DOE Nuclear Science Advisory Council (NSAC) member (2012- 2016) and member, NSAC Long Range Plan Working Group (2014-2015)
Chair, BNL Council (2010-2011)
International Conference Advisory Committees: Quark Matter (QM15, QM17, QM18, QM19, QM22, QM23), Quarks in Nuclear Physics (QNP15, QNP18, QNP22, QNP24), Initial Stages (IS13, IS14, IS16, IS17, CoChair 19, IS21, IS23), Hard Probes (HP18, HP20), ICPAQGP-23
Founder of Conference Series and IAC member, POETIC I-X