Dr. Oleg Komoltsev
(he/him)
Room: 2.230
Phone: +49 (0) 69 798-47886
Email: komoltsev[at]itp.uni-frankfurt.de
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In 2025 I joined the RelAstro group of Prof. Luciano Rezzolla as a postdoctoral Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Research Interests
I am interested in understanding matter under the most extreme conditions in the universe, particularly inside neutron star cores—the densest matter known to exist. My research connects perturbative QCD at high densities with astrophysical constraints on the neutron-star equation of state, providing strong evidence that massive neutron stars undergo some form of phase transition.
More broadly, I work at the interface of astrophysics, particle physics, gravitational-wave astronomy, and numerical-relativity simulations to study the QCD phase diagram.