Emeritus ProfessorMichael Duff, FRS
Distinguished Research Fellow
Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
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- Distinguished Research FellowDepartment of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- 020 7594 8571 (Work)
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- 510, Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
OVERVIEW
My interests lie in unified theories of the elementary particles, quantum gravity, Kaluza-Klein theory, superstrings, supermembranes, M-theory and quantum information theory.
FUNDING
2008-2011 Co-Investigator, STFC grant P16955, M-theory, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory, £1,688,643
2008-2013 Co-Investigator, Physics Department Quota Studentships Grant ST/F007027/1 from STFC, £3,028,9440.2009-2012 Principal Investigator, STFC grant P21730,Postdoctoral Fellowship, £238,469
2011-2013 Royal Society Travel Grant, ''Superqubits", £10,000
2011-2014 Co-Investigator, STFC grant P35687, M-theory, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory", £1,514,4302014-2017 Co-Investigator, STFC grant P46288, M-theory, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory", £1,527,915
2017-2020 Co-Investigator, STFC grant ST/P000762/1, M-theory, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory", £1,917,758
2020-2023 Co-Investigator, STFC grant ST/P000762/1, M-theory, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory",
2023-2026 Co-Investigator, STFC grant ST/P000762/1, M-theory, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory",
2016-2018 Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellowship, ``Gravity as the square of a gauge theory'', £22,000.
INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
Abdus Salam Lecture, Lahore University, Pakistan, 2017
O’Raifeartaigh Lecture, Maynooth University, Ireland, 2016
Distinguished Lecturer, Chinese University of Science and Technology, Hefei, 2014
7th Annual Erwin Schroedinger Lecture ''The world in eleven dimensions'', at the invitation of the Erwin Schroedinger Institute for
Mathematical Physics in Vienna, West University of Timisoara, Romania,, 2012
Perimeter Scholars Lectures, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, 2012
Paco Yndurain Lecture, University of Madrid, Madrid, 2011
Guest Lecturer, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, 2010
Abdus Salam Lecture, Bashier Mosque Bensheim, Frankfurt, 2009
Friday Evening Discourse, The Royal Institution, 2008
Distingished Lecturer, Arizona State University, 2008
Frontiers in Physical Science Lecture, Imperial College London, 2005
Gold Medal Lecture, El Colegio Nacional, Mexico City, 2004
Carlos Graef Lectures, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, 2003
Asim Barut Memorial Lecture, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 2002
Oskar Klein Professorship Inaugural Lecture, University of Michigan, 2001
My interests lie in unified theories of the elementary particles, quantum gravity, Kaluza-Klein theory, superstrings, supermembranes, M-theory and quantum information theory.
FUNDING
2008-2011 Co-Investigator, STFC grant P16955, M-theory, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory, £1,688,643
2008-2013 Co-Investigator, Physics Department Quota Studentships Grant ST/F007027/1 from STFC, £3,028,9440.2009-2012 Principal Investigator, STFC grant P21730,Postdoctoral Fellowship, £238,469
2011-2013 Royal Society Travel Grant, ''Superqubits", £10,000
2011-2014 Co-Investigator, STFC grant P35687, M-theory, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory", £1,514,4302014-2017 Co-Investigator, STFC grant P46288, M-theory, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory", £1,527,915
2017-2020 Co-Investigator, STFC grant ST/P000762/1, M-theory, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory", £1,917,758
2020-2023 Co-Investigator, STFC grant ST/P000762/1, M-theory, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory",
2023-2026 Co-Investigator, STFC grant ST/P000762/1, M-theory, Cosmology and Quantum Field Theory",
2016-2018 Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellowship, ``Gravity as the square of a gauge theory'', £22,000.
INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
Abdus Salam Lecture, Lahore University, Pakistan, 2017
O’Raifeartaigh Lecture, Maynooth University, Ireland, 2016
Distinguished Lecturer, Chinese University of Science and Technology, Hefei, 2014
7th Annual Erwin Schroedinger Lecture ''The world in eleven dimensions'', at the invitation of the Erwin Schroedinger Institute for
Mathematical Physics in Vienna, West University of Timisoara, Romania,, 2012
Perimeter Scholars Lectures, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, 2012
Paco Yndurain Lecture, University of Madrid, Madrid, 2011
Guest Lecturer, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, 2010
Abdus Salam Lecture, Bashier Mosque Bensheim, Frankfurt, 2009
Friday Evening Discourse, The Royal Institution, 2008
Distingished Lecturer, Arizona State University, 2008
Frontiers in Physical Science Lecture, Imperial College London, 2005
Gold Medal Lecture, El Colegio Nacional, Mexico City, 2004
Carlos Graef Lectures, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, 2003
Asim Barut Memorial Lecture, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 2002
Oskar Klein Professorship Inaugural Lecture, University of Michigan, 2001