Professor Andreas Brandhuber

Head of Centre for Theoretical Physics | Professor of Theoretical Physics

Email: a.brandhuber@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: G. O. Jones Building, Room 603
Website: http://www.strings.ph.qmul.ac.uk/~andreas/

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Teaching
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Profile

I am a director of the Centre for Theoretical Physics (CTP). I have held postdoctoral fellowships at Tel Aviv University, CERN and Caltech, before joining QMUL in 2003. I received my PhD jointly from CERN and Technical University Vienna.

My current research interests are centred around modern methods for the computation of scattering amplitudes with the twofold goal of exhibiting novel symmetries and mathematical structures, and exploiting these insights to develop vastly more efficient tools to compute amplitudes. The theories of concern include N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory, QCD and gravity. Very recently I have employed these techniques to extract results in general relativity relevant to the binary blackhole problem and gravitational radiation.

Prizes and Awards:

Feinberg Foundation Visiting Faculty Program Fellowship, Weizmann Institute, Israel (2011-2012)
Nuclear Physics B Most Cited Article 2006-2010 Award, with Paul Heslop and Gabriele Travaglini, for the paper MHV Amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills and Wilson Loops. The paper is also available through the arXiv.
Ludwig Boltzmann Prize of the Austrian Physical Society (2005)

Teaching

In the academic year 2022/2023 I teach Quantum Mechanics B (3rd year BSc, Semester A) and will supervise BSc/MSci and MSc projects (potential project titles).

Research

Research Interests:

See Andreas Brandhuber’s research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.

Supervision

Scattering Amplitudes describes broadly the research direction I am planning to work on with PhD students. I am more than happy to discuss details of my current research focus with potential applicants.