Martin Bojowald (born 18 February 1973 in Jülich) is a German physicist who now works on the faculty of the Penn State Physics Department,[1] where he is a member of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos.[2] Prior to joining Penn State he spent several years at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics[3] in Potsdam, Germany. He works on loop quantum gravity and physical cosmology and is credited with establishing the sub-field of loop quantum cosmology.
Positions
edit- Presently: Professor of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos[4]
- January 2006 – June 2009: Assistant Professor of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos
- September 2003 – December 2005: Junior Staff Scientist, Albert-Einstein-Institut
- September 2000 – August 2003: Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, The Pennsylvania State University
Education
edit- June 2000 – PhD at RWTH Aachen in Germany (with distinction), supervisor: Prof. Hans A. Kastrup
- July 1998 – August 2000: Fellow of the DFG-Graduate College "Strong and electroweak interactions at high energies"
- June 1998 – Diploma, RWTH Aachen (with distinction), supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans A. Kastrup
- April 1995 – June 1998: Fellow of the German Merit Foundation
- October 1993 – June 2000: RWTH Aachen
Prizes and awards
edit- Faculty Scholar Medal in the Physical Sciences 2011, Penn State University
- Teaching Award 2009, Penn State Society of Physics Students
- NSF CAREER AWARD 2008: "Effective Descriptions in Cosmology"
- Xanthopoulos Prize 2007 of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation
- Selected for a portrait in Nature, January 2005
- First Award, Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition, 2003
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "PennState". Retrieved 2011-02-04.
- ^ "PennState Gravitation & the Cosmos". Retrieved 2011-02-04.
- ^ "AEI". Archived from the original on 2010-06-17. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
- ^ "Martin Bojowald – Penn State Department of Physics".
External links
edit- Loop Quantum Cosmology
- Later edition of the above article
- Absence of Singularity in Loop Quantum Cosmology
- Publications at ArXiv
- an interview published in Nature
- Glimpse of Time Before Big Bang Possible by Charles Q. Choi. Article on Space.com using Bojowald as authority. July 1, 2007. Retrieved July 2, 2007.
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