RAJU VENUGOPALAN
Adjunct Professor
Physics and Astronomy
rajuv@bnl.gov
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Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2025 Jul 30)

Biography
Raju Venugopalan is a Distinguished Scientist at BNL and the Director of the BNL EIC Theory Institute. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Stony Brook since 2009. Raju's interests are primarily in nonperturbative many-body features of gauge theories. He is known for his seminal work on the Color Glass Condensate effective field theory of high energy QCD, and for his work on thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma. With his BNL colleagues, Raju came up with the idea of introducing a high energy electron beam in the RHIC tunnel, and developed the science case for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) now under construction at BNL.  A recent research focus of his is on the double copy between QCD and gravitational amplitudes at high energies. Raju is a Fellow of the APS, and has received several awards for his research including the Humboldt Research Award, and most recently, the UK Royal Society Wolfson 2025-2026 Visiting Fellowship. 

Research Statement
1) Regge asymptotics of QCD and gravity

2)  High-order computations in gauge theories

3)  Applications of quantum information science to high energy physics

4) Thermalization in gauge theories