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Shamit Kachru
Professor

E-mail: kachru@slac.stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 926-4498
Group: Theoretical Physics/Stanford Physics
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Education

A. B., 1990, Harvard University; Ph.D., 1994, Princeton University.

Professional Academic History

Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, 1994-1996; Research Associate, Rutgers University, 1996-1997; Assistant Professor, UC, Berkeley, 1997-1999; Associate Professor (untenured) 1999, Associate Professor (with tenure) 2001, and Full Professor (2006 - present),  Stanford University and SLAC.

Awards and Honors

Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, Department of Energy, 1997. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1998. Bergmann Memorial Award, 1999, Packard Foundation Fellowship, 2000.

Research Areas

Theoretical particle physics; string theory and M theory. Recent focus on string compactifications, and relations to inflationary cosmology and dynamical supersymmetry breaking.

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Last update on 26 Jan 2007 by McDunn