Research Interests

I am interested in string theory, quantum field theory, and early universe cosmology.

• Theoretical Particle Physics
  

Selected publications

"Flux compactification," M. Douglas and S. Kachru, arXiv:hep-th/0610102.

"Observational signatures and non-Gaussianities of general single field inflation," X. Chen, M. Huang, S. Kachru and G. Shiu, arXiv:hep-th/0605045.

"Type IIA moduli stabilization," O. DeWolfe, A. Giryavets, S. Kachru and W. Taylor. arXiv:hep-th/0505160

"Towards inflation in string theory,'' S. Kachru et al, arXiv:hep-th/0308055

"De Sitter vacua in string theory,'' S. Kachru, R. Kallosh, A. Linde and
S. Trivedi, arXiv:hep-th/0301240

"Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications,'' S. Giddings, S.
Kachru and J. Polchinski, arXiv:hep-th/0105097

"4d conformal field theories and strings on orbifolds,'' S. Kachru and
E. Silverstein, arXiv:hep-th/9802183

"Exact results for N=2 compactifications of heterotic strings,''
S. Kachru and C. Vafa, arXiv:hep-th/9505105

Career History

• A.B., Harvard University, 1990 
• Ph.D., Princeton University, 1994 
• Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, 1994-96 
• Research Associate, Rutgers University, 1996-97 
• Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, 1997-99 
• Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1999
• Associate, Full Professor, Stanford University, 1999-present

Honors and Awards

• Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, 1997
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1998
• Bergmann Memorial Award, 1999
• Packard Foundation Fellowship, 2000
• ACIPA Outstanding Young Physicist Prize, 2008
  "For fundamental contributions shedding light on the nature of string theory ground states, and on the origin of dark energy in string theory, leading to an accelerating universe."
  

Recent Ph.D. Students

• Dusan Simic (current)
• Mike Mulligan (current)
• Alexander Giryavets (now at UBS investment bank)
• Xiao Liu (Perimeter Institute postdoc, 2006)
• Liam McAllister (now Cornell faculty)
• John McGreevy (now MIT faculty)
• Michael Schulz (now Bryn Mawr faculty)