Matthias Staudacher

Matthias Staudacher (* 1963 ) is a German theoretical physicist who has done significant work in the field of quantum field theory .

education

After studying physics at the University of Heidelberg and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , Staudacher completed his doctorate with John Kogut at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1990) with a dissertation on matrix models of two-dimensional quantum gravity . After his postdoctoral work at Rutgers University in New Jersey , Paris and at CERN in Geneva , he was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam from 1997 . In 2009 he received the Oscar from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and in 2010 became Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Some of his publications have contributed significantly to the understanding of the so-called AdS / CFT (anti-de Sitter / conformal field theory correspondence), a duality between the quantum theory of the Yang-Mills type and the supersymmetric string theory , which Juan Martín Maldacena first developed in the 1990s suggested. Staudacher suggests that the integrable spin chains of condensed matter physics could form the link between the two approaches.

personal data
SURNAME	Staudacher, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	1963