Niklas Beisert
Professor
Department of Physics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Niklas Beisert has been a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in the Department of Physics since August 2011. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1977. Niklas Beisert studied physics at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen from 1996 to 2001, obtaining a diploma. He also attended an MSc Course at Imperial College London, Great Britain in 1999/2000. He then researched at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam-Golm, Germany, and received a PhD from Humboldt University of Berlin for his work in 2004. From 2004 to 2006 he was a postdoctoral fellow, then lecturer and ultimately Assistant Professor at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. From 2006 to 2011 Niklas Beisert headed a Max Planck research group at the MPI for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam-Golm.
Research Interest
Theoretical physics; Specialising in quantum field theory; String theory and symmetries.
