Rate My Professor Konrad Tywoniuk

Konrad Tywoniuk is Professor and Group Leader of the Theoretical Physics Group in the Department of Physics and Technology at the University of Bergen. He earned his Cand.Sci. in Physics from the University of Oslo in February 2004, with a thesis on scalar and tensor fluctuations during inflation, and his Ph.D. in Physics from the same university in September 2008, titled “Hard and Soft Physics in pp, pA and AA collisions” under supervisor Larissa Bravina.

His postdoctoral career includes positions at the University of Santiago de Compostela (2008–2010), Lund University (2010–2012), University of Barcelona (2012–2015 as Juan de la Cierva Fellow), and CERN (2015–2018 as Marie Skłodowska-Curie and CERN Fellow). In October 2018, Tywoniuk joined the University of Bergen as Researcher with a Trond Mohn Foundation Starting Grant (2018–2022), later becoming Professor and group leader. He leads the “Thermalizing jets” project on jet processes in heavy-ion collisions. Tywoniuk's research focuses on high-energy nuclear and particle physics, including QCD jets interacting with quark-gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions, parton energy loss, jet quenching, coherence effects, antenna radiation in QCD media, jet substructure, and machine learning for data analysis. Key publications include “Jet physics in heavy-ion collisions” (Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 28, 1340013, 2013), “Sudakov suppression of jets in QCD media” (Phys. Rev. D 98, 051501, 2018), “Groomed jets in heavy-ion collisions: sensitivity to medium-induced bremsstrahlung” (JHEP 04, 125, 2017), “Massless Mode and Positivity Violation in Hot QCD” (Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 161601, 2015), and “New picture of jet quenching dictated by color coherence” (Phys. Lett. B 725, 357, 2013). He has received the UH-nett Vest grant (2018–2019), Juan de la Cierva Fellowship (2012–2015), and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2015–2017). Tywoniuk teaches PHYS301 General Relativity, PHYS333 Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, PHYS206 Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics, and coordinates the Master of Science in Engineering Quantum Technology program. He delivered plenary talks at Hard Probes 2016 and invited talks at BOOST2019.