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Sabine Hossenfelder
Born (1976-09-18) 18 September 1976 (age 47)
NationalityGerman
Alma materGoethe University Frankfurt
EmployerFrankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Known forQuantum gravity

Sabine Hossenfelder (born 18 September 1976) is a blogger and Theoretical Physicist who researches quantum gravity. She is a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. She is the author of "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray", which explores the elegance in fundamental physics and cosmology.

Education

Hossenfelder completed her undergraduate degree in 1997 at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main.[1] She remained there for a Masters degree under the supervision of Walter Greiner, entitled "Particle Production in Time Dependent Gravitational Fields", which she completed in 2000.[2] Hossenfelder received her doctorate "Black Holes in Large Extra Dimensions" from the same institution in 2003, under the supervision of Horst Stöcker.[3]

Research

Hossenfelder remained in Germany until 2004 as a postdoctoral researcher at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany.[1] She moved to North America and completed research fellowships at the University of Arizona, Tucson, University of California, Santa Barbara and Perimeter Institute, Canada.[4][5][6] She joined Nordita Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sweden in 2009 as an Assistant Professor.[7][8] In 2018 she was a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies.[9]

Hossenfelder's research interest is in the phenomenology of quantum gravity.[7] She focuses on the role of Lorentz invariance and locality, which would be altered in the discovery of quantum gravity.[7] Hossenfelder is trying to find experimental evidence of quantum gravity.[10][11][12][13] Since 2007 she has been involved with the annual conference series "Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity".[14] Hossenfelder has created a number of YouTube videos exploring the topic.[15][16][17]

Public engagement

Hossenfelder is a freelance popular science writer who has kept a blog since 2006.[18] She contributes to the Forbes column "Starts with a Bang" as well as Quanta Magazine, New Scientist, Nature, Scientific American and Physics Today.[19][20][21][22][23][24] In 2016, Hossenfelder offered to act as a physics consultant on her blog—$50 USD for twenty minutes of discussion—and had to recruit five extra physicists to deal with the demand.[25][26] In 2017 she created cards featuring pioneering quantum physicists.[27] Live Science and The Guardian quoted Hossenfelder as an authority when trying to evaluate the importance of Stephen Hawking's last scientific publication.[28][29]

Basic Books decided to publish Hossenfelder's first book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, released in June 2018.[30][31][32]

References

  1. ^ a b "Sabine". sabinehossenfelder.com (in German). Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  2. ^ Hossenfelder, Sabine; Schwarz, Dominik J.; Greiner, Walter (2003). "Particle production in time-dependent gravitational fields: the expanding mass shell". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 20 (11): 2337. arXiv:gr-qc/0210110. Bibcode:2003CQGra..20.2337H. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/20/11/325. ISSN 0264-9381.
  3. ^ Hossenfelder, Sabine; Bleicher, Marcus; Hofmann, Stefan; Stöcker, Horst; Kotwal, Ashutosh V. (2003). "Black hole relics in large extra dimensions". Physics Letters B. 566 (3–4): 233–239. arXiv:hep-ph/0302247. Bibcode:2003PhLB..566..233H. doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(03)00835-9.
  4. ^ "The Multiverse at Perimeter | Not Even Wrong". www.math.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  5. ^ Horgan, John. "Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Fears Theorists, Lacking Data, May Succumb to "Wishful Thinking"". Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  6. ^ Hossenfelder, S. (2008). "Bimetric theory with exchange symmetry". Physical Review D. 78 (4): 044015. arXiv:0807.2838. Bibcode:2008PhRvD..78d4015H. doi:10.1103/physrevd.78.044015.
  7. ^ a b c Mühlen, Hans. "Sabine Hossenfelder - NORDITA". www.nordita.org. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  8. ^ Are we there yet? : the search for a theory of everything. Emam, Moataz H. [Saif Zone, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates]: Bentham Science Publishers. 2011. ISBN 9781608052141. OCLC 759158465.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ^ "Sabine Hossenfelder | Edge.org". www.edge.org. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  10. ^ "Sabine". sabinehossenfelder.com (in German). Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  11. ^ Sabine Hossenfelder (2015-10-10). "News from Quantum Gravity Phenomenology". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. ^ Hossenfelder, Sabine (2010-10-17). "Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity". Classical and Quantum Gravity: Theory, Analysis and Applications. Vol. 5. Nova Publishers. arXiv:1010.3420. Bibcode:2010arXiv1010.3420H. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ Hossenfelder, Sabine; Marletto, Chiara; Vedral, Vlatko (2017-09-06). "Quantum gravity: Quantum effects in the gravitational field". Nature. 549 (7670): 31–31. Bibcode:2017Natur.549...31H. doi:10.1038/549031a.
  14. ^ "Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity (19-30 September 2016)". Indico - FIAS Events. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  15. ^ Sabine Hossenfelder (2017-10-11), What could we learn from quantum gravity?, retrieved 2018-01-27
  16. ^ Selen Atalay (2016-08-27), Sabine Hossenfelder talks about Quantum Gravity Phenomonology in 3 mins, retrieved 2018-01-27
  17. ^ Sabine Hossenfelder (2012-07-30), My research area: The Phenomenology of Quantum Gravity, retrieved 2018-01-27
  18. ^ "About". backreaction.blogspot.ch. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  19. ^ "Strangely familiar: Is dark matter normal stuff in disguise?". New Scientist. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  20. ^ Bang, Starts With A. "Why Trust A Theory? Physicists And Philosophers Debate The Scientific Method". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  21. ^ Hossenfelder, Sabine (2015). "Head Trip". Scientific American. 313 (3): 46–49. Bibcode:2015SciAm.313c..46H. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0915-46.
  22. ^ Hossenfelder, Sabine (2017-04-05). "Science needs reason to be trusted". Nature Physics. 13 (4): 316–317. Bibcode:2017NatPh..13..316H. doi:10.1038/nphys4079.
  23. ^ "Sabine Hossenfelder | Quanta Magazine". www.quantamagazine.org. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  24. ^ Hossenfelder, Sabine. "What Quantum Gravity Needs Is More Experiments". Nautilus.
  25. ^ "Q&A with Sabine Hossenfelder: Consultant for Armchair Physicists". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  26. ^ "What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists – Sabine Hossenfelder | Aeon Ideas". Aeon. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  27. ^ "physicsworld.com". blog.physicsworld.com. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  28. ^ "Stephen Hawking's Last Paper (Probably) Doesn't Prove We Live in a Multiverse". Live Science. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  29. ^ Sample, Ian (2018-03-14). "A life in science: Stephen Hawking". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  30. ^ Hossenfelder, Sabine (2018). Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray. Basic Books. ISBN 9780465094264.
  31. ^ "Review of Lost in Math". Kirkus Reviews. April 2018.
  32. ^ "Review of Lost in Math". Publishers Weekly. 30 April 2018.
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