Niklas Beisert
Prof. Dr. Niklas BeisertRelationFull Professor Contact DataTel.: +41 44 633 78 29 AddressETH Zürich | |
| Organisations |
Full Professor at the Department of Physics http://www.phys.ethz.ch/ |
| Research Field | Professor Beisert conducts research in the field of theoretical physics, specialising in quantum field theory, string theory and symmetries. |
| Curriculum Vitae (CV) | Niklas Beisert has been a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in the Department of Physics since August 2011. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1977. Niklas Beisert studied physics at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen from 1996 to 2001, obtaining a diploma. He also attended an MSc Course at Imperial College London, Great Britain in 1999/2000. He then researched at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam-Golm, Germany, and received a PhD from Humboldt University of Berlin for his work in 2004. From 2004 to 2006 he was a postdoctoral fellow, then lecturer and ultimately Assistant Professor at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. From 2006 to 2011 Niklas Beisert headed a Max Planck research group at the MPI for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam-Golm. |
| Honours | 2018 Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2013 ERC Consolidator Grant: GaugeGravSym, Extended Symmetries in Gauge and Gravity Theories 2013 New Horizons in Physics Prize, Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation 2011 Participated in the 25th Solvay Conference of Physics 2010 Talk invitation for the International Congress of Mathematicians 2007 Gribov Medal from the European Physical Society 2006 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2005 Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society 2001 Undergraduate and PhD scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation |
| Additional Information | Professor Beisert is married and has three children. |
| Course Catalogue | 402-0180-00L Ethics and Scientific Integrity for Doctoral Students in Physics 402-0204-00L Electrodynamics 406-0204-AAL Electrodynamics |
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