Dr Bogdan Stefanski

Overview

After completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2000, Dr Bogdan Stefanski was a Post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and a FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Researchon Matter) research fellow at the Spinoza Institute in Utrecht. In 2004 he moved to Imperial College where he was a Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellow and an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow. Between 2008 and 2009 Bogdan Stefanski held a Marie Curie Outgoing Research Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Imperial College. He has been at City University since 2009 where he is an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow and Lecturer.

Qualifications

1. PhD Mathematics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2000
2. Part III Mathematics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1996
3. BSc (Hons) Mathematics & Physics, University of Natal, South Africa, 1995
4. BSc Majors in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics & Physics, University of Natal, South Africa, 1994

Employment

1. Reader, City, University of London, Aug 2012 – present
2. Senior Lecturer, City, University of London, Jan 2009 – Aug 2012
3. Marie Curie Outgoing Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Imperial College London, Jan 2007 – Dec 2008
4. EPRSC Advanced Fellow, Imperial College London, Jan 2006 – Dec 2007
5. Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, Imperial College London, Jan 2004 – Dec 2005
6. Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter Fellow, Spinoza Institute, University of Utrecht, Sep 2002 – Dec 2003
7. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Sep 2000 – Aug 2002

Memberships of professional organisations

1. Member, London Mathematical Society, 2012
2. Member, Institute of Physics, 2009

Bogdan Stefanski is interested in all things string theory. String theory has led to a number of important developments in theoretical physics including a consistent quantisation of gravity, a natural framework for supersymmetry (a conjectured symmetry of bosons and fermions, currently being searched for at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva) and a deaper understanding of geometric objects such as Calabi-Yau manifolds and Seiberg-Witten invariants. Despite being around the theoretical physics landscape for over 30 years, string theory is far from being fully understood - new and exciting surprizes about its properties are frequently uncovered.

One of the most impressive such surprises is the remarkable conjecture made by Juan Maldacena in 1997. In it he postulated that a strongly coupled four dimensional gauge theory (a generalised theory of nuclear interactions) was in fact described by a 10 dimensional string theory. Much of Bogdan Stefanski's recent work has focused on unravelling the stringy aspects of this correspondence: how can a 10-dimensional string theory 're-package' itself into a gauge theory?

16 Supersymmetries Workshop: A half-way meeting in the City

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