Martin Bojowald

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

• 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

• 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

• List of loop quantum gravity researchers
• Big Bounce
• Abhay Ashtekar