ZHOUDUNMING TU
Adjunct Associate Professor
Physics and Astronomy
zhoudunming.tu@stonybrook.edu
Brookhaven National Lab

Biography
Dr. Zhoudunming (Kong) Tu is an Associate Adjunct Professor at Stony Brook University. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Rice University, where he worked on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Following his doctorate, he joined Brookhaven National Laboratory as a prestigious Goldhaber Fellow, focusing on the development of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Since 2021, Dr. Tu has served as an Assistant Scientist and now Associate Scientist in the EIC group within Brookhaven’s Physics Department.

Research Statement
Dr. Tu is an experimental nuclear and particle physicist whose research lies at the intersection of high-energy heavy-ion physics and deep inelastic scattering. His work aims to uncover how matter forms in the universe by studying Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) through the complex interactions of quarks and gluons—the fundamental building blocks of protons and neutrons. He has led extensive research on ultra-peripheral collisions of heavy ions, spin correlations of hyperons in hadronic interactions, and quantum entanglement phenomena among subatomic particles, seeking to understand how these correlations influence the structure and dynamics of nuclear matter. At Stony Brook, Dr. Tu also leads efforts to fabricate high-quality scientific mirrors using state-of-the-art evaporation techniques for advanced instrumentation.