Igor Klebanov
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Igor R. Klebanov (Russian: И́горь Ромáнович Клеба́нов; Ukrainian: Ігор Романович Клєбанов; born March 29, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist. Since 1989, he has been a faculty member at Princeton University where he is currently a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and the director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science.[1] In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[2] Since 2022, he is the director of the Simons Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings.[3]
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Igor R. Klebanov | |
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Born | (1962-03-29) March 29, 1962 (age 62) Soviet Union |
Alma mater | MIT, Princeton University |
Known for | AdS/CFT correspondence, Klebanov-Strassler solution, Higher-spin theory |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics String theory |
Doctoral advisor | Curtis Callan |
Doctoral students | Steven Gubser |
Website | www |
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