Matthias Staudacher

Matthias Staudacher (born 13 September 1963) is a German theoretical physicist who has done significant work in the area of quantum field theory and string theory.

Education Beginning his physics studies at Heidelberg University and at LMU Munich, Staudacher then earned a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1990) with a dissertation on matrix models of two-dimensional quantum gravity.

Career After postdoctoral work at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Paris and CERN in Geneva, from 1997 he was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam. In 2009, he received the Academy Award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and became a mathematical physics professor at Humboldt University of Berlin in 2010. Some of his publications have been instrumental in developing an understanding of the so-called AdS/CFT correspondence, a duality between the Yang-Mills-type quantum theory and supersymmetric string theory first suggested in the 1990s by Juan Martín Maldacena. Interview in journal HU-WISSEN Edition 6, December 2013 jointly with Jan Plefka. Matthias Staudacher at Humboldt University