CV | Aleksas Mazeliauskas

Emmy Noether research group leader at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, and project leader in the Collaborative Research Center ISOQUANT.
Interests: QCD thermalisation, kinetic theory and attractors; collectivity in small and large collision systems; jet quenching and hard probes in the quark-gluon plasma; chiral phase transition and non-equilibrium dynamics of ultracold quantum gases.
Accumulated third party funding: €2.5 million in research grants, plus workshop and programme funding.
Teaching and supervision: master level courses and invited lecture series; 3 postdocs, 3 PhD students, 3 master and 2 bachelor students supervised to date.

2026
Habilitation in Physics

Heidelberg University, Germany
- Venia legendi in physics conferred on 15 July 2026
2012 - 2017
PhD in Physics

Stony Brook University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, United States
- Title: Fluctuations in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions
- Advisor: Prof. Derek Teaney
- Max Dresden Prize for outstanding theoretical thesis
2011 - 2012
Master of Mathematics (Part III Maths)

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- graduated with distinction
2008 - 2011
Bachelor of Arts (Mathematical Tripos)

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 1st class degree

2024 - now
Project leader

Collaborative Research Center ISOQUANT, Heidelberg University
- Project A01. Thermalisation dynamics and infrared phenomena in heavy-ion collisions with J. Berges and K. Reygers
- Project ABC. Origins of collectivity in few-body systems with T. Enss, S. Jochim and S. Masciocchi
- Member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team at CRC ISOQUANT
2022 - now
Emmy Noether research group leader

Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University
- Six-year research project on Many-body QCD phenomena in high-energy proton and nuclear collisions.
2019-2022
Senior research fellow

Theoretical Physics Department, CERN
- Research on QCD thermalisation, collective phenomena in heavy-ion and light-ion collisions, and Standard Model processes in nuclear environments.
2017 - 2019
Postdoctoral researcher

Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University
- Work on non-equilibrium QCD physics using quark and gluon kinetic theory
- pre-equilibrium kinetic propagator KøMPøST
- resonance decay code FastReso.
2014 - 2017

Research assistant

Nuclear Theory Group, Stony Brook University

43 journal articles with over 3100 citations and an h-index of 30, including a Rev. Mod. Phys. review and 10 papers in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Full list: publications page and INSPIRE profile.

43 invited talks at international conferences and workshops since 2015, of which 12 plenary and review talks and 3 departmental colloquia.
25 contributed talks.
4 invited lecture series at international schools.

2024
Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung support for the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
- Selected speaker (14 from 250 submissions)
2019
Nuclear Physics A Young Scientist Award
- For the best theory talk at Quark Matter 2019
2017
Max Dresden Prize

Stony Brook University
- For an outstanding theoretical thesis

Member of the International Advisory Committee for the XXXII International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2027).
Heavy-Ions Working Group convener at the LHC Physics Centre at CERN (since 2025).
Junior researcher representative at Research Council Field of Focus II, Heidelberg University (since 2024).
Refereeing — grants: US DOE Early Career Research Program, French ANR Appel à projets générique; journals: PRL, PRC, PRD, PLB, NPB, JHEP.

2023-now
Girls' Day
- Co-organiser of Girls' Day at Heidelberg Physics and Astronomy Department.
2020-now
National Student Academy (NMA)
- Head of Physics section at additional training school for gifted high-school children in Lithuania.