Qi Shi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Kent State University
Department of Physics
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Physics at Kent State University, working with Andrew Hanlon. I received my Ph.D. in Physics from Central China Normal University in 2025, where I worked with Heng-Tong Ding. From 2022 to 2025, I was a visitor in the Physics Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, working with Swagato Mukherjee.
I use lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) to study hadron structure. My published work includes pion and kaon electromagnetic form factors and pion generalized parton distributions (GPDs). I am now investigating nucleon parton distributions and GPDs, and have begun working on hadron spectroscopy. These calculations help connect the quark and gluon structure of hadrons to measurements at facilities such as Jefferson Lab and the future Electron-Ion Collider.
In my leisure time, I enjoy:
- 🎤 Singing and 💃 Dancing
- 👫 Hangout with friends
- ✈️ Traveling with my husband
- 🏊 Swimming
news
| Jul 26, 2026 | I presented our ongoing nucleon PDF work at Lattice 2026. |
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| Jan 20, 2026 | Our skewness-dependent pion GPD moments paper was published in Physical Review D. |
| Sep 01, 2025 | I joined the Department of Physics at Kent State University as a postdoctoral scholar in September 2025. |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Our pion generalized parton distributions paper was published in JHEP. |
| Oct 29, 2024 | Our meson electromagnetic form factors paper was published in Physical Review Letters. |
selected publications
- Skewness-dependent moments of the pion GPD from nonlocal quark-bilinear correlatorsPhys. Rev. D, 2026Corresponding authors: Qi Shi and Fei Yao