Matthias Staudacher

Beginning his physics studies at the University of Heidelberg and at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Staudacher then earned a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1990) with a dissertation on matrix models of two-dimensional quantum gravity.^[1]^[2]

After postdoctoral work at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Paris and CERN in Geneva, from 1997 he was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam. In 2009 he received the Academy Award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities^[3] and became a mathematical physics professor at Humboldt University of Berlin in 2010. Some of his publications have been instrumental in developing an understanding of the so-called AdS/CFT correspondence,^[4] a duality between the Yang-Mills-type quantum theory and supersymmetric string theory first suggested in the 1990s by Juan Martín Maldacena.^[1] Staudacher suggests that the integrable spin chains of condensed matter physics may form the link between the two approaches.^[4]

His doctoral students include Niklas Beisert.^[2]

Selected publications

1997 – V. A. Kazakov and M. Staudacher, "Advances in Large N Group Theory and the Solution of Two-Dimensional R² Gravity", pp. 265–277 in Low-dimensional applications of Quantum field theory, Laurent Baulieu, Vladimir Kazakov, Marco Picco, Paul Windey (Eds.) Plenum Press, New York. ISBN 0-306-45686-9
Beisert, Niklas; Eden, Burkhard; Staudacher, Matthias (2007-01-30). "Transcendentality and crossing". Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2007 (1). IOP Publishing: P01021. arXiv:hep-th/0610251. Bibcode:2007JSMTE..01...21B. doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2007/01/p01021. ISSN 1742-5468. S2CID 15227034.

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