Position/Role
Assistant Professor
Department
Building
Woodlands 5
Room
119
E-mail
Courses Taught
- CP 2220-2230 Structure of Physics 1 and 2
- CP 2221-2231 Structure of Physics 1 and 2 Lab
- CP 2260 General Physics 3
- CP 2261 General Physics 3 Lab
Degrees
- Postdoctoral Research: Imperial College London, KULeuven, École Polytechnique, École Normale Supérieure
- Ph.D., UCLA, 2008
- B.S. Caltech, 2002
Research Interests
String theory, High-energy theoretical physics :
- gauge/gravity duality (AdS/CFT correspondence) and strongly coupled systems
- applications of string theory to cosmology and astrophysics
- string perturbation theory
- effects of boundaries and interfaces in fundamental physics.
Publications