Jan Louis
Jan Louis (* 1959 ) is a German theoretical physicist who deals with string theory.
Louis studied physics from 1979 to 1985 at the University of Karlsruhe and then at the University of Pennsylvania , where he received his doctorate in 1988. As a post-doctoral student he was at SLAC until 1991 , at CERN from 1991 to 1993 and from 1993 to 1996 as a Heisenberg fellow at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he completed his habilitation in 1995. In 1996 he became professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and in 2003 at the University of Hamburg . In Hamburg he is also at DESY .
He deals with supersymmetric quantum field theories, supergravity and its geometry and with string theory , in particular the effective effect after compacting the extra dimensions of the low-energy sector of string theory and cosmological predictions of string theory. The scalar sector of supergravity corresponds to module spaces of the compactification manifolds in string theory, from which mutual relationships result. For example, he used a unifying approach to investigate the anti-de-sitter background spaces of supergravity and their modular spaces with effects on the AdS-CFT correspondence
From 2016 to 2019 he is Vice President of the University of Hamburg. In 2005 he was a founding member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg .
From 2000 to 2007 he was spokesman for the DFG priority program String Theory in the Context of Particle Physics, Quantum Field Theory, Cosmology and Mathematics and from 2006 to 2016 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center Particles, Strings and the Early Universe .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Louis, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |