Maximilian Attems
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests
- AdS/CFT, numerical general relativity
- strongly and weakly coupled thermalization
- thermal field theory
- lattice QCD
- heavy-ion collisions, quark-gluon plasma
Academic Awards and Honours
- 2020-2022: EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Individual Fellowship, “Holography under extreme conditions (ExHolo)”.
- 2015-2017: EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Individual Fellowship, “Fast Thermalization of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma (FastTh)”.
- 2012 - 2014: Postdoctoral Scholarship Helmholtz Young Investigator Group.
- 2011: Vienna University of Technology PhD outgoing scholarship.
- 2010: US-Austrian Marshall Plan Scholarship.
- 2006-2007: PhD Program Helmholtz Research School.
Publications
INSPIRE publication list
arXiv e-prints list
orcid.org/0000-0001-8764-3022
Google scholar publication list
Research
My main research focus deals with out-of-equilibrium situations. In order to deepen our understanding of the strong interaction force, I have been using a variety of techniques and insights from high cohomogeneity real time dynamics, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, thermal field theory, Monte Carlo simulations, classical Yang-Mills evolution, numerical general relativity, holography and string theory. My research exploits numerical simulations to bridge field theoretical first principles approaches with newest experimental results from extreme matter produced at ultra-relativistic hadronic collisions:
Typical non-conformal shockwave evolution
Scalar condensate evolution