Robbert Dijkgraaf

Robertus Henricus (Robbert) Dijkgraaf (born January 24, 1960 in Ridderkerk ) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist .

Dijkgraaf studied physics and mathematics at the University of Utrecht from 1978 to 1982 . After studying science, he switched to studying painting at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam . In 1989 he received his doctorate in theoretical physics from Gerard 't Hooft in Utrecht . He then went to Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . Since 1992 he has been Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Amsterdam .

Robbert Dijkgraaf is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (and was its president from 2008 to 2012) and the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen . In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin ( The mathematics of Fivebranes ). In 2000 he gave a plenary lecture at the 3rd European Congress of Mathematicians 2000 in Barcelona ( The mathematics of M-theory ). In 2001 he was awarded the Physica Prize of the Dutch Physical Society and in 2003 he was awarded the Spinoza Prize , the highest scientific award in the Netherlands. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012) and became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion in 2012 .

He is also very active in scientific public relations and is a columnist for the NRC Handelsblad , Quanta Magazine of the Simons Foundation and Folia (a weekly free newspaper from the University of Amsterdam).

Christoph Schweigert is one of his doctoral students .

Dijkgraaf became director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton on July 1, 2012 . Since 2008 he has been a member of the Academia Europaea . In 2013 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society .

Web links

Commons : Robbert Dijkgraaf - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Homepage Robbert Dijkgraaf. University of Amsterdam(English, CV, list of publications, audio and video files).; accessed on November 30, 2018
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor. Institute for Advanced Study(English).; accessed on November 30, 2018
Robbert Dijkgraaf in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Robbert Dijkgraaf's publications on SPIRES
Robbert Dijkgraaf . In: arXiv.org

Individual evidence

↑ Former presidents. Dutch Academy of Sciences, accessed November 30, 2018 (Dutch).
↑ Spinozapremie 2003 voor Robbert Dijkgraaf. NWO, August 26, 2003, accessed November 30, 2018 (Dutch).
↑ Quantum Questions Inspire New Math . In: Quanta Magazine . March 30, 2017 (English, quantamagazine.org ). , There Are No Laws of Physics. There's only the landscape . In: Quanta Magazine . June 4, 2018 (English, quantamagazine.org ).
^ Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor. Institute for Advanced Study, accessed November 30, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Dijkgraaf, Robbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dijkgraaf, Robertus Henricus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 24, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ridderkerk

[1] Former presidents. Dutch Academy of Sciences, accessed November 30, 2018 (Dutch).

[2] Spinozapremie 2003 voor Robbert Dijkgraaf. NWO, August 26, 2003, accessed November 30, 2018 (Dutch).

[3] Quantum Questions Inspire New Math . In: Quanta Magazine . March 30, 2017 (English, quantamagazine.org ). , There Are No Laws of Physics. There's only the landscape . In: Quanta Magazine . June 4, 2018 (English, quantamagazine.org ).

[4] Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor. Institute for Advanced Study, accessed November 30, 2018 .