Research Interests

I am interested in string theory, quantum field theory, and early universe cosmology. One recent focus has been on using gauge/gravity duality or other
techniques to study strongly coupled field theories with possible
applications in elementary particle physics or condensed matter physics.

• Theoretical Particle Physics
  

Recent publications

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
• Director, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2009-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 (now KITP Graduate Fellow, to MIT as postdoc Fall 2009)
• 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)