Juan Maldacena

Biography

Juan Maldacena was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1968. He completed his undergraduate education in 1991 at Instituto Balseiro in Bariloche, Argentina. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from Princeton University. After being a Research Assistant at Rutgers University, he went to Harvard as a Visiting Professor, an Associate Professor and became a Professor of Physics in 1999. Since 2001, he has been at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he is the Carl Feinberg Professor. In 1999 he was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship. Some of his other prizes and fellowships include the Sloan Fellowship, Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, the UNESCO Husein Prize for Young Scientists, the Sackler Prize in Physics, the Xanthopoulos Prize in General Relativity, the Pius XI Medal, the APS Edward A. Bouchet Award, the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, the ICTP Dirac Medal, the I.Ya.Pomeranchuk Prize, and in 2012 the Milner Foundation Fundamental Physics Prize. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the National Academy of Science.

Research Interest

Quantum gravity, string theory, and quantum field theory