Univ.Prof. Dipl.Ing. Dr.techn. Paul Romatschke, opens an external URL in a new window was appointed University Professor for Theoretical High Energy Physics at TU Wien with effect from September 1, 2025. He is assigned to the Institute of Theoretical Physics (E136) at the Faculty of Physics.

CV: Paul Romatschke comes from Wels. He studied technical physics at TU Wien, where he also obtained his doctorate in 2003 with a dissertation on “Quasiparticle description of the hot and dense quark-gluon plasma, opens an external URL in a new window.” His scientific career then took him first to Germany, where he worked as a research assistant at Bielefeld University from 2004 to 2006. He then moved to the University of Washington in Seattle (USA) as a Research Assistant Professor (INT 5-year fellow) until 2010. After a one-year fellowship at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), he returned to the USA in 2011, this time to the University of Colorado Boulder (near Denver, Colorado), where he initially worked as an assistant professor, then as an associate professor from 2017, and since August 2022 as a full professor, opens an external URL in a new window in the Department of Physics.

His scientific home is the above-mentioned institute. Here, he conducts research on topics such as dark matter, relativistic viscous hydrodynamics, non-Abelian plasma instabilities, and nonlinear gravity.

Publications by Paul Romatschke in the Scopus, opens an external URL in a new window database and in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.