Mark Strikman

Mark Strikman is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in deep inelastic scattering, vector meson production from nuclei, and particle physics in nuclear interactions. He has contributed to studies of nuclear shadowing, short-range nucleon correlations in nuclei, and high-luminosity proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC.

Education: M.S. in Theoretical Physics (Leningrad University, 1972), Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics (Leningrad Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1978), and Professor Habilitatus Degree (Leningrad Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1988).

Research interests include probing nuclear tomography via QCD phenomena, nonperturbative models of strong interactions, and high-energy diffraction. His work spans ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC, coherent photoproduction, and neutron structure studies using Jefferson Lab facilities. Strikman has led collaborations on the Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) and the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), emphasizing precision QCD and forward physics.

Notable awards include the Humboldt Research Award (2009, 1999), CERN Fellowship (2013), and Fellow of the American Physical Society (1997). His recent articles explore nuclear EMC effects, quark-gluon dynamics, and the interplay of soft and perturbative QCD in high-energy collisions.