Research Interests 

High energy physics, gravity, and string theory, including: stabilization of moduli and models of the cosmological constant, mechanisms for inflation and singularity resolution, supersymmetry breaking, topology changing transitions, black hole physics, dualities and unification.

Career History

• Education A.B., Physics, Harvard University, 1992.
  
• Ph.D., Physics, Princeton University, 1996
  
• Postdoctoral Associate, Rutgers University, 1996 - 1997.
  
• MacArthur Fellow, 1999
  
• 1999 Sloan Fellowship and DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
  
• 1999 Member, Institute for Advanced Study
  
• 1999 Bergmann Memorial Award
  
• Associate Member, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research,
  
• Cosmology and Gravity program, 2004-present
  
• Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1997 - 2001.
  
• Associate Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 2001 - 2006.
  
• Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 2006-present
• Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, UC Santa Barbara, 2009-10

Recent Students

• Yun Song (on to Oxford)
  
• Allan Adams (on to Harvard)
  
• Michal Fabinger (on to Harvard)
  
• Alex Saltman (on to Columbia)
• David Starr (on to Goldman Sachs)
• Daniel Green (on to IAS)

• Xi Dong
• Bart Horn