Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States
Profiles
Summary 🧑🔬
Keh-Fei Liu is an esteemed theoretical physicist specializing in nuclear and particle physics, particularly in lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). With a career spanning decades, Liu has made significant contributions to the understanding of hadron physics, nucleon structure, and computational high-energy physics. He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Stony Brook University (1975) and has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Award and Fellowship in the American Physical Society. Liu is a recognized leader in the physics community and has played an instrumental role in various international conferences and workshops.
Education 🎓
- B.S. (Highest Honors) (1968)
Tunghai University, Taiwan
State University of New York, Stony Brook
- Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics (1975)
Stony Brook University
Professional Experience 💼
- Professor, Department of Physics,
University of Kentucky (1986–2023)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (2022–Present)
University of Science and Technology, Hefei, China (1989–1999)
CEN Saclay, France (1974–1976)
University of California, Los Angeles (1976–1980)
- Humboldt Senior Scientist,
HLRZ, Jülich, Germany (1991)
Research Interests 🔬
- Lattice QCD: Lattice calculations to understand hadrons and nucleon structure.
- Nuclear and Particle Physics: Investigating fundamental forces and quark-gluon interactions.
- Computational Physics: Development of algorithms for high-energy physics simulations.
Awards & Honors 🏆
- First Prize in Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1987)
- Alexander von Humboldt Award for Senior Scientist (1990)
- Fellow, American Physical Society (1997)
- Albert D. and Elizabeth H. Kirwan Memorial Prize, University of Kentucky (2018)
- Outstanding Alumni Award, Tunghai University (2022)
Key Contributions 🌍
- Leadership in Conferences & Workshops:
Organized and contributed to major international conferences on lattice QCD and hadron physics, such as Extreme QCD 2012 and the International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory.
Principal Investigator for multiple DOE and NSF grants supporting research in theoretical nuclear physics, including projects on nucleon structure and quark-gluon dynamics.
Publications
Charm physics with overlap fermions on 2+1-flavor domain wall fermion configurations
- Authors: Li, D.-H., Chen, Y., Gong, M., Liu, Z., Wang, T.-X.
Journal: Chinese Physics C
Year: 2024
The present and future of QCD
- Authors: Achenbach, P., Adhikari, D., Afanasev, A., Zhou, J., Zurek, M.
Journal: Nuclear Physics A
Year: 2024
Lattice QCD Calculation of Electroweak Box Contributions to Superallowed Nuclear and Neutron Beta Decays
- Authors: Ma, P.-X., Feng, X., Gorchtein, M., Wang, B.-G., Zhang, Z.-L.
Journal: Physical Review Letters
Year: 2024
Trace anomaly form factors from lattice QCD
- Authors: Wang, B., He, F., Wang, G., Liu, K.-F., Yang, Y.-B.
Journal: Physical Review D
Year: 2024
Temperature dependence of beam on plasma stopping power in the resonance regions of fusion reactions
- Authors: Liu, K.-F.
Journal: Fundamental Plasma Physics
Year: 2024
Hadrons, superconductor vortices, and cosmological constant
- Authors: Liu, K.-F.
Journal: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Year: 2024
Nucleon electric dipole moment from the θ term with lattice chiral fermions
- Authors: Liang, J., Alexandru, A., Draper, T., Wang, G., Yang, Y.-B.
Journal: Physical Review D
Year: 2023