Johanna Erdmenger appointed honorary professor at LMU

Prof. Johanna Erdmenger, member of the Excellence Cluster Universe and research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, has been appointed new honorary professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU). The theoretical physicist works in the field of string theory and quantum field theory. Together with her research group she looks for new relationships between string theory and particle physics in view of bringing string theory closer to experimental tests. She is significantly involved in the development of a new research area, in which, on the basis of string theory, new connections between gravitation and quantum field theory are drawn. With this new approach she has been described new physical phenomena in strongly coupled systems, for example, a superconducting ground state for quantum chromodynamics in the external magnetic field and the chiral vortex effect in the quark-gluon plasma. Other applications are in the field of the physics of condensed matter.

Johanna Erdmenger studied physics at the University of Hamburg and received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. After postdoctoral positions at Leipzig University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she was Emmy Noether junior research group leader at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since 2005 Johanna Erdmenger is head of a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute) in Munich. At LMU, she holds introductory lectures into her research area since 2006. Up to now, she has supervised 15 doctoral theses.

Contact
Prof. Dr. Johanna Erdmenger
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)
Föhringer Ring 6
80805 München

Tel.: +49 89 32354-413
E-Mail: jke@mpp.mpg.de