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Paul Goldbart

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Paul Mark Goldbart is a physicist and author, and was the first director of the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His research ranges widely over the field of condensed matter physics, including soft matter, disordered systems, nanoscience and superconductivity. Goldbart was provost of Stony Brook University from March 2021 until January 2022. Prior to that he had served as Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, Dean of the College of Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and as the director of the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory.