Priv.-Doz.  Dr.  Ralph Blumenhagen

Permanent Staff Member

Personalities

• 1994 PhD at the University of Bonn
• 1994-1996 Post-Doc at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill
• 1996-1998 Post-Doc at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
• 1998-2003 Post-Doc (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  
• 2001 Habilitation at Humboldt-Universität
• 2003-2004 PPARC Advanced Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK
• 2004 Permanent Staff Member at the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
  

• Superstring Theory
  
• String model building: heterotic strings, D-brane models, M- and F-theory vacua
• Flux compactifications: Type IIB vacua with fluxes, moduli stabilization
  
• String phenomenology: low energy effective actions, statistics of string theories (landscape)

• A public introductory talk on string theory
• Search for publications via SPIRES
  

• Errata for the book "Introduction to Conformal Field Theory", Lecture Notes in Physics 779, Springer
   
• Reference implementation for computation of line bundle cohomology of toric varieties