Martin Bojowald

Martin Bojowald (born February 18, 1973, in Jülich) is a German physicist who now works on the faculty of the Penn State Physics Department, where he is a member of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos. Prior to joining Penn State he spent several years at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany. He works on loop quantum gravity and physical cosmology and is credited with establishing the sub-field of loop quantum cosmology.

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• Positions
• Education
• Prizes and Awards
• References

Positions

Presently: Professor of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos

January 2006 - June 2009: Assistant Professor of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos

September 2003 - December 2005: Junior Staff Scientist, Albert-Einstein-Institut

September 2000 - August 2003: Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, The Pennsylvania State University

Education

June 2000: PhD at RWTH Aachen in Germany (with distinction), supervisor: Prof. Hans A. Kastrup

July 1998 - August 2000: Fellow of the DFG-Graduate College "Strong and electroweak interactions at high energies"

June 1998: Diploma, RWTH Aachen (with distinction), supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans A. Kastrup

April 1995 - June 1998: Fellow of the German Merit Foundation

October 1993 - June 2000: RWTH Aachen

Prizes and Awards

Faculty Scholar Medal in the Physical Sciences 2011, Penn State University

Teaching Award 2009, Penn State Society of Physics Students

NSF CAREER AWARD 2008: "Effective Descriptions in Cosmology"

Xanthopoulos Prize 2007 of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation

Selected for a portrait in Nature, January 2005

First Award, Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition, 2003