Paul Mark Goldbart (born August 1960 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England) is a physicist and author, and was the first director of the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Goldbart was provost of Stony Brook University from March 2021[1] until January 2022.

[2] Prior to that he had served as dean of the college of natural sciences at The University of Texas at Austin,[3] Dean of the College of Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology,[4] and as the director of the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory.

Goldbart earned his Ph.D. at Imperial College London in 1985 under Professor David Sherrington.

Goldbart is a trustee of and the former Treasurer[5] for the Aspen Center for Physics in Colorado.