Douglas Stanford

Douglas Stanford is an American theoretical physicist. He is an associate professor of physics at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics of Stanford University. His research interests include quantum gravity, quantum field theory and string theory. Stanford was awarded the 2018 New Horizons in Physics Prize by Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation for his work on improving the understanding of quantum mechanics of black holes via chaos theory.

Early life and education Douglas Stanford was born in Anacortes, Washington. He attended Anacortes Senior High school. Stanford graduated from the Stanford University in 2009 with B.S. in physics and mathematics. He earned an M.S. in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2010 where he was a Marshall Scholar. He earned his Ph.D. in physics in 2014 from Stanford University, under the guidance of Leonard Susskind. During this time, he worked with Edward Witten on fermionic localization of the Schwarzian theory. In 2019, Stanford joined Stanford University as an assistant professor. , he was an associate professor of physics at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics.

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