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Portrait of Konstantin A. Maslov

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Konstantin A. Maslov

NP3M Postdoctoral Fellow · University of Houston

I am a theoretical nuclear physicist working on strongly coupled matter: the quark–gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions and the dense matter in neutron-star cores. My tools range from relativistic mean-field and chiral quark models to self-consistent diagrammatic calculations anchored to lattice QCD.

I am a fellow of the NSF Focused Research Hub “Nuclear Physics from Multi-Messenger Mergers” (NP3M) at the University of Houston. With R. Rapp (Texas A&M University) I developed the first real-frequency, self-consistent T-matrix calculation of strongly coupled quark matter at large density; it predicts that deconfined matter in neutron-star cores would form a strongly coupled diquark liquid.

I received my PhD from the National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI” in Moscow with Prof. Dmitry N. Voskresensky, developing relativistic mean-field models with scalar-field-scaled hadron masses and couplings that resolve the hyperon puzzle. I then worked at the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR (Dubna), and at Central Asian University (Tashkent).

Short bio · for talk announcements

Konstantin A. Maslov is an NP3M Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Houston. Maslov’s research addresses strongly coupled matter in heavy-ion collisions and neutron stars, from relativistic mean-field and chiral models to self-consistent T-matrix calculations of quark matter. Earlier positions: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna) and Central Asian University (Tashkent); PhD from NRNU “MEPhI”, Moscow.

Path so far

  1. 2023 – present
    NP3M Postdoctoral Fellow · University of Houston
  2. 2023 – 2025
    Visiting researcher · Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University
  3. 2022 – 2023
    Visiting assistant professor · Central Asian University, Tashkent
  4. 2017 – 2022
    Junior research fellow, then research fellow · Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, Dubna
  5. 2015 – 2019 (defended 2020)
    PhD · NRNU “MEPhI”, Moscow
    Thesis: Equation of state of hadronic matter within relativistic mean-field models with coupling constants and hadron masses dependent on the scalar field
  6. 2009 – 2015
    Specialist degree in theoretical physics · NRNU “MEPhI”, Moscow

Contact

Email
kmaslov@central.uh.edu
Office
Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204
arXiv INSPIRE ORCID ResearchGate [Google Scholar]

Students interested in dense-matter physics, neutron stars or heavy-ion collisions are welcome to get in touch by email.