Martin Bojowald
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Martin Bojowald (born 18 February 1973 in Jülich) is a German physicist who now works on the faculty of the Penn State Physics Department,{{cite web |title = PennState| url=http://www.phys.psu.edu | accessdate=2011-02-04}} where he is a member of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos.{{cite web|title =PennState Gravitation & the Cosmos | url=http://www.gravity.psu.edu/ | accessdate=2011-02-04}} Prior to joining Penn State he spent several years at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics{{cite web |title = AEI |url = http://www.aei.mpg.de/english/contemporaryIssues/home/index.html |accessdate = 2011-02-04 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100617163527/http://www.aei.mpg.de/english/contemporaryIssues/home/index.html |archivedate = 2010-06-17 }} 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
- Presently: Professor of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos{{Cite web |title=Martin Bojowald – Penn State Department of Physics |url=http://www.phys.psu.edu/people/mob6}}
- 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
- 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
- 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
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060527025018/http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2005-11/ Loop Quantum Cosmology]
- [https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrr-2008-4/ Later edition of the above article]
- [https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0102069 Absence of Singularity in Loop Quantum Cosmology]
- [https://arxiv.org/find/gr-qc/1/au:+Bojowald_M/0/1/0/all/0/1 Publications] at ArXiv
- [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v433/n7021/full/433012a.html an interview published in Nature]
- [http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070702_mm_big_bang.html 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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