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We discuss the current status of the extraction of nuclear Parton Distribution Functions (nPDFs) and highlight the opportunities that experimental measurements at the EIC can provide. Specifically, we focus on recent improvements and challenges on the determination of the nuclear Strange and Gluon distributions, the flavor separation and the dependence on the nuclear mass number $A$. Each of these challenges can be approached via the precision measurements the EIC is designed for.
Further, we discuss a newly developed phenomenological approach to the determination of nPDFs that is inspired by short ranged correlated (SRC) nucleon pairs. Early studies indicate, that a connection between high-energy phenomenology and nuclear modeling can be established. The measurements at the EIC will help unravel this mystery and ultimately provide a better understanding of the nuclear structure.
