Paul Goldbart

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| birth_place = Barnet, Hertfordshire, England

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| workplaces = University of Texas at Austin

Stony Brook University

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| doctoral_advisor = David Sherrington

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Paul Mark Goldbart (born August 1960 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England) 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{{Cite web|url=https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/paul-m-goldbart-named-stony-brook-provost/|title=Paul M. Goldbart Named Stony Brook Provost|date=January 19, 2021}} until January 2022.{{Cite web |last=Nassiri |first=Niki |last2=Lynders |first2=Maria |date=2022-01-23 |title=Paul Goldbart, executive vice president and provost, steps down |url=https://www.sbstatesman.com/2022/01/23/paul-goldbart-executive-vice-president-and-provost-steps-down/ |access-date=2022-08-03 |website=The Statesman |language=en-US}} Prior to that he had served as dean of the college of natural sciences at The University of Texas at Austin,{{Cite web|url=https://news.utexas.edu/2018/04/12/paul-goldbart-named-dean-of-the-college-of-natural-sciences|title=Paul Goldbart Named Dean of the College of Natural Sciences|date=April 12, 2018}} Dean of the College of Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology,{{cite web |url=http://www.cos.gatech.edu/people |title=People {{!}} Georgia Tech College of Sciences |website=www.cos.gatech.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719201936/http://www.cos.gatech.edu/people |archive-date=2011-07-19}} and as the director of the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory.