Ruth Durrer
Ruth Durrer | |
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| Alma mater | University of Zürich |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Zürich University of Geneva University of Cambridge Princeton University |
| Doctoral students | Roberto Trotta (Imperial College London) Martin Kunz Chiara Caprini |
Ruth Durrer is a Professor Astroparticle physics at the University of Geneva. She works on the cosmic microwave background, brane cosmology and massive gravity.
Early life and education
Durrer completed her PhD at the University of Zürich in 1988.[1] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge for a year, before joining Princeton University in 1989.[2] Durrer returned to Zürich in 1991, completing a postdoctoral fellowship.[1]
Research and career
Durrer was made an Assistant Professor University of Zürich in 1992, and Full Professor at the University of Geneva in 1995.[1] [3] She is a member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.[4] She works on the cosmic microwave background and massive gravity.[5][6][7] Massive gravity describes an expanding universe with massive gravitons, which weakens gravity on large scales.[8] Durrer uses cosmological observations as a test for general relativity.[9] Durrer demonstrated that density fluctuations in the early universe can result in the cosmological magnetic fields.[10][11][12] She studied an extended area of space, separating it into 60 billion zones and using the c++ library LATfield2 with a supercomputer to study the movement of individual particles.[13] She used Einstein's equations to calculate the distance in metric space, comparing this with the prediction of Newton's methods.[13] She has investigated dark energy.[14]
Durrer was elected to Academia Net by the Swiss National Science Foundation in 2012.[15]
Books
- Durrer, Ruth; García-Bellido, Juan; Shaposhnikov, Mikhail (2001). Cosmology and Particle Physics. Melville, New York: American Institute of Physics. ISBN 1563969866. OCLC 46930644.
- Durrer, Ruth (2008). The Cosmic Microwave Background. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511817205. ISBN 9780511817205. OCLC 297170401.[16]
Awards and honours
- 1992 Swiss Academy of Sciences Schaefli Award[17]
References
- ^ a b c "Ruth Durrer | Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics - University of Geneva". cosmology.unige.ch. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Ruth Durrer". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Ruth's Homepage". fiteoweb.unige.ch. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Ruth Durrer | Perimeter Institute". perimeterinstitute.ca. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ Durrer, Ruth. (2008). The cosmic microwave background. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511424069. OCLC 297170401.
- ^ "Ruth Durrer | SwissMAP". www.nccr-swissmap.ch. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Cosmology and the cosmic microwave background | Cours de physique théorique". courses.ipht.cnrs.fr. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Ruth Durrer". www.colloquium.phys.ethz.ch. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Testing General Relativity with Cosmological observations - Ruth Durrer". Media Hopper Create - The University of Edinburgh Media Platform. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ Durrer, Ruth (2006-02-10). "Is the Mystery of Cosmic Magnetic Fields Solved?". Science. 311 (5762): 787–788. doi:10.1126/science.1122395. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16469908.
- ^ "North of the Big Bang". www.newscientist.com. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
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- ^ a b "Spacetime and Gravitational Waves Yield a New View of the Universe". The Daily Galaxy. 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ Durrer Ruth (2011-12-28). "What do we really know about dark energy?". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 369 (1957): 5102–5114. doi:10.1098/rsta.2011.0285.
- ^ "Prof. Ruth Durrer - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ Reviews of The Cosmic Microwave Background:
- Slosar, Anže (2009-08-01). "The Cosmic Microwave Background; A Primer on the Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background". Physics Today. 62 (8): 44. doi:10.1063/1.3206096.
- Bartelmann, Matthias (2009). "Ruth Durrer: The cosmic microwave background". General Relativity and Gravitation. 41 (7): 1671–1673. doi:10.1007/s10714-009-0791-0.
- Coles, Peter (2009). "BOOK REVIEW: The Cosmic Microwave Background". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 26 (16): 169002. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/26/16/169002.
- ^ "Ruth Durrer". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2019-04-28.