Mark Van Raamsdonk

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| fields = Physics

| workplaces = {{Plainlist|

• University of British Columbia
• Stanford University
• Princeton University

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| alma_mater = Princeton University

| doctoral_advisor = Washington Taylor

| thesis_title = Making the most of zero branes and a weak background{{cite web|url=https://mathoverflow.net/q/44326|title=Most memorable titles|first=Jim|last=Bryan|publisher=Math Overflow|year=2010|access-date=2017-09-29}}

| thesis_year = 2000

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• Gravity and entanglement
• EPR=ER}}

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• 1st prize annual essay contest of the Gravity Research Foundation (2010)

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Mark Van Raamsdonk is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia since 2002.{{cite web |title=Mark Van Raamsdonk page on the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the UBC web site|url=https://www.phas.ubc.ca/users/mark-van-raamsdonk|access-date=20 November 2015 |publisher=University of British Columbia}} Before that, he was a postdoc at Stanford University from 2000 until 2002 and studied as a graduate student at Princeton University from 1995 until 2000 when he received his PhD under the supervision of Washington Taylor. Before that, he did a combined mathematics/physics undergraduate degree at University of British Columbia where he graduated with what is believed to be the highest GPA in the university's prior history.{{cite web |title=Home page of Mark Van Raamsdonk on the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the UBC web site|url=http://www.phas.ubc.ca/~mav/vanraamsdonk.html|access-date=20 November 2015 |publisher=University of British Columbia}}

In 2009 Mark Van Raamsdonk started to work on the relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity during his first sabbatical year.{{cite web |title=The quantum source of space-time|url=http://www.nature.com/news/the-quantum-source-of-space-time-1.18797|access-date=20 November 2015|publisher=Nature Publishing Group}} He published his results "Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement" as an essay in 2010,{{cite journal|last=Van Raamsdonk|first=Mark|title=Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement.|journal=General Relativity and Gravitation|date=19 June 2010|volume=42|issue=10|pages=2323–2329|doi= 10.1007/s10714-010-1034-0|arxiv=1005.3035|bibcode=2010GReGr..42.2323V}} which won the first prize of the annual essay contest run by the Gravity Research Foundation.{{cite web|title=Award essays by year |url=http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/winners_year.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929022056/http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/winners_year.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 September 2007 |access-date=20 November 2015 |publisher=Gravity Research Foundation }} Van Raamsdonk is a member of the "It from Qubit" collaboration, which was formed in 2015.{{cite web|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mathematics-physical-sciences/it-from-qubit/people/page/6?|title=It from Qubit: People|publisher=Simons Foundation|access-date=2017-09-29}}

Mark Van Raamsdonk plays the saxophone and has organized a concert series at UBC, inspired by a similar one that existed during his time at Princeton.{{cite web|url=http://www.phas.ubc.ca/affleck-and-van-raamsdonk-receive-2014-cap-medal-and-award|title=Affleck and Van Raamsdonk receive the 2014 CAP medal and award|publisher=UBC|date=2014-04-11|access-date=2017-09-29}}{{cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/98/0420/0420-3a.html|title=A break from equations|first=Caroline|last=Moseley|publisher=Princeton Weekly Bulletin|date=1998-04-20|access-date=2017-09-29}}

In 2021, Van Raamsdonk published a short picture book titled "The Hot and Cold Adventures of Mr. Brick".{{cite book |last= Van Raasmdonk|first= Mark|author-link= Mark Van Raamsdonk|date= 2021|title= The Hot and Cold Adventures of Mr. Brick | isbn= 979-8747309470 }}