Giorgi Dvali
Georgi Dvali | |
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| გიორგი (გია) დვალი | |
| Born | May 30, 1964 |
| Alma mater | Tbilisi State University |
| Known for | Large extra dimensions DGP model Weak Gravity Conjecture Dark matter Quantum Gravity |
| Awards | Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology (2003) NYU Silver Professorship (2007) David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | New York University Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Doctoral advisor | Zurab Berezhiani Juansher Chkareuli |
Georgi (Gia) Dvali (Georgian: გიორგი (გია) დვალი; born May 30, 1964) is a Georgian theoretical physicist and science communicator in Georgia. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, and holds a Silver Professorship Chair at the New York University.[1] His research interests include String theory, Extra dimensions, Quantum gravity, and the Early universe.
Dvali is considered to be one of the world's leading experts in the field of particle physics.[2] Among his many contributions stand his pioneering works on Large extra dimensions and the DGP model of modified gravity.[1]
In 2008, Dvali was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship.
Early life and education
Georgi Dvali was born on May 30, 1964, in Tbilisi. He graduated from the 55th secondary school of Tbilisi and continued his studies at the Faculty of Physics of Tbilisi State University. In 1985, he defended his diploma work under the guidance of Zurab Berezhiani. In 1985–1992 he worked at the Elephter Andronikashvili Physics Institute of the Georgian Academy of Sciences where he completed his PhD in particle physics and cosmology in 1992. In 1992–1993 he was a postdoctoral fellow of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy), and in 1993–1995 he was a postdoctoral fellow of the University of Pisa.
Research and career
Dvali is best known for the ADD model, which he proposed together with Nima Arkani-Hamed and Savas Dimopoulos in 1998. It is a scenario inspired by string theory to explain the relative weakness of gravity to other forces, in which the Standard Model fields are confined to a (3+1)-dimensional membrane but gravity can also propagate in additional transverse spatial dimensions that are compact but may be as large as one-tenth of a millimeter. In this framework quantum gravity, string theory, and black holes may be experimentally investigated at the Large Hadron Collider. Dvali's work also includes the large-distance modification of gravity and its application to the cosmological constant problem. With Gregory Gabadadze and Massimo Porrati he co-pioneered and advanced this direction by proposing a generally covariant model of infrared modification of gravity (the so-called DGP model), and studying many novel and subtle features of this class of models.
Giorgi Dvali was invited to the 25th Solvay Conference in Brussels as one of the world's most eminent physicists to participate in the discussion of "The Theory of the Quantum World". Dvali is actively engaged in teaching activities. During 1997–1998, he was a professor at ICTP. Currently, he is a professor of theoretical physics at New York University (Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics) and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, as well as the director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics (Munich) and a scientist-collaborator at the CERN Center for Atomic Research in Geneva. He is also a distinguished professor of the Free University of Tbilisi.
Honours and awards
Dvali received New York City's Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology in 2000.[3]
Dvali is a recipient of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation's Packard Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship, and the Humboldt Professorship (2008).
In popular culture
Dvali is the most famous scientific celebrities in Georgia. Since 2010, he has been regularly giving public lectures in different Georgian universities. Despite the general public having little understanding of the topic, he is widely recognized and receives adulation and publicity.
Personal life
Dvali is married and has two children – a son and a daughter.
- ^ a b "SO(IFT) Distinguished Prof. Georgi Dvali | Instituto de Física Teórica". www.ift.uam-csic.es. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
- ^ "Georgi Dvali". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
- ^ "Wayback Machine". nyas.org. September 27, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
External links
- Gia Dvali at New York University
- Gia Dvali at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
- Video about Gia Dvali
- Scientific publications of Giorgi Dvali on INSPIRE-HEP
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