Katrin Becker

Katrin Becker (born Gelsenkirchen, Germany, October 7, 1967) is a theoretical physicist and textbook author specializing in string theory. She is a professor of physics at Texas A&M University.

Becker deals with string theory, for example in the development of models that make predictions for the Standard Model and realize models of inflation in cosmology.

Personal life Katrin Becker was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany to Ingrid and Karl-Hans Becker on October 7, 1967. She grew up in Malaga, Spain, with her older sister Melanie Becker, and the two sisters were recruited to Texas A&M in 2005 as part of a faculty reinvestment program. Katrin survived her sister and collaborator Melanie who died in 2020 after a long fight with cancer.

Selected works

Katrin Becker, Daniel Butter, William D. Linch, and Anindya Sengupta. “Components of eleven-dimensional supergravity with four off-shell supersymmetries.” Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(7), Jul 2021. Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, Daniel Butter, William D. Linch, and Stephen Randall. “Five-dimensional supergravity in N = 1/2 superspace.” Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(3), Mar 2020. Katrin Becker and Daniel Butter. “4D = 1 Kaluza-Klein superspace.” Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(9), Sep 2020. Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, Daniel Butter, and William D. Linch. “N = 1 supercurrents of eleven-dimensional supergravity.” Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(5), May 2018. Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, William D. Linch, Stephen Randall, and Daniel Robbins. “All Chern-Simons invariants of 4D, N = 1 gauged superform hierarchies.” Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(4), Apr 2017. Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, John Schwarz: String Theory and M-Theory. A modern introduction. Cambridge University Press 2007,