A fellow of the RIKEN Brookhaven Research Center, Farid Salazar has joined the department as an assistant professor of physics.

Before Temple, Salazar was a junior fellow at the Institute for Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington and held a joint postdoctoral appointment at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He earned his PhD in physics from Stony Brook University.

Salazar’s research centers on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory describing the dynamics of strongly interacting matter inside atomic nuclei. His recent focus is developing effective field theories for QCD in extreme conditions, such as high energies and densities. His work

provides essential theoretical input for interpreting data from major facilities like the Large Hadron Collider and for guiding future experiments at the Electron-Ion Collider.

His publications have appeared in leading journals including the Journal of High Energy Physics, Physical Review C, and Physical Review Letters. He has delivered numerous invited talks and seminars across the United States and in Finland, Italy, China and other countries.

In addition to research, Salazar is deeply committed to teaching and mentoring, working with students from high school through PhD programs, as well as with postdoctoral researchers.