The Theoretical Physics Group has a total of 19 staff members (including 2 foreign employees), including 14 research staff and 5 editorial staff. The group includes 8 full professors (senior-level), 8 associate professors (deputy senior-level), and 3 mid-level professionals. Several staff members have received talent awards/titles, including one recipient of the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund and three members of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association.

The group mainly conducts theoretical research in nuclear physics. Its specific research areas include nuclear structure and reactions, nuclear astrophysics, heavy-ion nuclear reactions, hadron structure and hadron spectroscopy, quantum computing, and related topics.

The group publishes more than 30 papers each year in domestic and international journals such as Physical Review C, Physics Letters B, The Astrophysical Journal, and Chinese Physics C.