Eric Bergshoeff
Eric Arnold Bergshoeff (born August 5, 1955 in Alphen aan den Rijn ) is a Dutch theoretical physicist who deals with high energy physics, supersymmetry and supergravity .
Bergshoeff studied physics at the University of Leiden with the doctoral examination in 1979 and the doctorate with Bernard de Wit 1983 (Conformal Invariance in Supergravity). As a post-doctoral student he was at Brandeis University in 1983/84 and then from 1984 to 1988 at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste , in autumn 1988 visiting scholar at Imperial College London and at NIKHEF and from 1989 to 1991 at CERN . From 1991 he did research at the University of Groningen as a scholarship holder of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), where he became a university lecturer in 1999 and professor for theoretical high-energy physics in 2001. Since 2002 he has been director of the Center for Theoretical Physics there.
He was one of the pioneers in the consideration of higher-dimensional objects as strings , the branes . In 1987 he found with Paul Townsend and Ergin Sezgin super membrane solutions in supergravity and with Michael Duff , Chris Pope and Ergin Sezgin a super membrane solution in 11-dimensional supergravity, which forms the edge of four-dimensional space-time with compactification in 7 dimensions (Supermembrane at the end of the world).
He is an academy professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics . From 2001 to 2006 he was on the advisory board of the Lorentz Center.
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| SURNAME | Bergshoeff, Eric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bergshoeff, Eric Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th August 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alphen aan den Rijn |