Rene Meyer's CV
- Scientific CV
- List of publications and scientific presentations
- List of Publications from INSPIRE HEP Search
Personal Data
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Education
| 1986-1992: | Primary and Middle School in Cranzahl, Germany |
| 1992-1998: | St.-Annen-Gymnasium (now "Landkreisgymnasium St. Annen", secondary and high school), Annaberg-Buchholz, Germany |
| July 1998: | "Abitur" - graduation from high school |
| 1999-2000: | Zivildienst at the Erzgebirgsklinikum Annaberg-Buchholz |
| 2000-2002: | Undergraduate studies of Physics at the Technical University Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany |
| 2002-2003: | Continuation of Undergraduate studies of Physics at the University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2003-2004: | Studies abroad within the Theoretical Physics master program at the Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics and the Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China |
| 2004-2006: | Continuation of Undergraduate studies of Physics at the University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany |
| May 2006: | Graduation Thesis: "Classical and Quantum Dilaton Gravity in Two Dimensions with Fermions" (Advisors: D. Grumiller and G. Rudolph), E-Print: gr-qc/0607062 Degree: Dipl.-Phys. (equivalent to M.Sc.) |
| 2006-2009: | Graduate studies of theoretical physics at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics and the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany (Advisor: Johanna Erdmenger) |
| Aug 2009: | PhD Graduation summa cum laude, Degree: Dr. rer. nat. (Doctor of Science, equivalent to PhD), Thesis: "Holography in External Fields and in Time Dependent Backgrounds" |
Professional Experience
| Jun 2005 - May 2006: | Research Student (diploma student) at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany (fulltime) |
| Sep 2006 - Sep 2009: | PhD Student/Scientific assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany (fulltime) |
| since Oct 2009: | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Crete Center for Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece (fulltime) |
Scholarships/Fellowships
| Aug. 2003 - Aug. 2004: | Scholarship within the China Scholarship Programme of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) |
| Aug. 2004 - Jun. 2006: | Undergraduate Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) |
| Sep. 2006 - Sep. 2009: | PhD Fellowship of the Max-Planck Society |
| Aug. 2008 - Aug. 2009: | German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Grant "German-Korean Cooperation in Science and Technology" KOR08/003 (approx. 11000 EUR for scientific exchange with Sogang U. & CQUeST, Seoul) |
Teaching Experience
| Sep. 2006: | One lecture (2h in total) on "Dilaton Gravity Theories in Two Dimensions", delivered at the Advanced Summer School on Modern Mathematical Physics, Dubna, Russia |
| Oct. 2006 - Feb. 2007: | Tutorial on "Mathematical Methods for Physicists", Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich |
| Oct. 2006 - Feb. 2007: | Replaced PD Dr. Johanna Erdmenger in several lectures on "Dualities between Quantum Field Theories and Gravitational Theories", Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich |
| Jun. 2008 - Mar. 2009: | Supervision of a high school graduation special science thesis on string theory by Patrick Fröhner and Tom Päßler, Professional High School Oelsnitz. The thesis (in german language) can be downloaded here. |
| Nov. 2008: | Two lectures (4h in total) on "The D3-D7 Model of AdS/CFT with Flavour", delivered at Vienna U. of Technology |
| Oct. 2009: | One lecture (2h in total) on "Flavoured Holographic Duals of Three-Dimensional Chern- Simons-Matter Theories", delivered at the Crete Center for Theoretical Physics, Heraklion, Greece |
| Jan. 2010: | Two lectures (4h in total) on "The D3-D7 Model of AdS/CFT with Flavour", delivered at the Center for High Energy Physics of Peking U. and at Nankai U. (Tianjin, P. R. China) |
| Mar. 2010: | One lecture (2h in total) on "Flavoured Holographic Duals of Three-Dimensional Chern- Simons-Matter Theories", delivered at Pusan National U. (Pusan, South Korea) |
| Mar. 2011: | One lecture (2h in total) on "Holography and Strange Metals", delivered at the Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences, American University Beirut, Lebanon |
Scientific Visits and Talks
| October 2005: | TU Vienna (one week, invited by W. Kummer, talk on Class.Quant.Grav.23:6435-6458,2006) |
| September 2006: | "Dilaton Gravity Theories in Two Dimensions", Invited talk at the "Advanced Summer School on Modern Mathematical Physics", Dubna, Russia |
| March 2007: | Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (one week, invited by J. P. Shock, talk on Phys.Rev.Lett.98:261301,2007) |
| August 2007: | ESI (two weeks, invited by T. Strobl, talk at TU Vienna on on Phys.Rev.Lett.98:261301,2007) |
| April 2008: | "Two-Dimensional Dilaton Gravity with Boundary", Invited talk at the "7th Workshop on Quantization, Dualities and Integrable Systems", Eskisehir, Turkey |
| September 2008: | MIT (3 days, invited by D. Z. Freedman and H. Liu) |
| September 2008: | U. of Pennsylvania (2 days, invited by V. Balasubramanian, talk on JHEP 0712:091,2007 & JHEP 0807:068,2008) |
| September 2008: | U. of Kentucky (2 days, invited by S. R. Das, talk on Phys.Rev.Lett.98:261301,2007) |
| September 2008: | Chicago U. (3 days, invited by J. A. Harvey, talk on JHEP 0712:091,2007 & JHEP 0807:068,2008) |
| September 2008: | Perimeter Institute (3 days, invited by J. Gomis, talk on JHEP 0712:091,2007 & JHEP 0807:068,2008) |
| September 2008: | UCLA (1 day, invited by P. Kraus, talk on JHEP 0712:091,2007 & JHEP 0807:068,2008) |
| September 2008: | USC (3 days, invited by C. V. Johnson, talk on JHEP 0807:068,2008) |
| September 2008: | Stanford U. (2 days, invited by S. J. Brodsky, talk on JHEP 0712:091,2007 & JHEP 0807:068,2008) |
| September 2008: | "Two Uses of Kalb-Ramond Fields in AdS/CFT with Flavour", talk on JHEP 0712:091,2007 & JHEP 0807:068,2008 at Recent Developments in String/M Theory, Seoul, South Korea |
| September 2008: | CQUeST & Sogang U. (one week, invited by J.-H. Park, talk on "Two-Dimensional Dilaton Gravity with Boundary") |
| June 2009: | Santiago de Compostela U., Spain (one week, invited by J. Shock, talk on "Adding Flavour to AdS4/CFT3") |
| August 2009: | DIAS, Dublin (one week, invited by V. Filev, talk on Phys.Rev.Lett.98:261301,2007) |
| November 2010: | CQUeST & Sogang U. (two weeks, invited by J.-H. Park, talk on JHEP 1011:151,2010) |
| December 2010: | Pusan National University (one week, invited by D.-K. Hong, talk on JHEP 1011:151,2010) |
Schools, Workshops and Conferences
For a list of talks given at workshops and conferences c.f. my List of publications and scientific presentations.
"Soft Skills"
| languages: | German (native), English, Chinese |
| computing: | Mathematica, HTML, LaTeX |
Physics Department, University of Crete
P.O. Box 2208
71003 Heraklion
Crete
Greece
Tel: +30-2810-39-4233
Fax: +30-2810-39-4274
e-mail: meyer@physics.uoc.gr
Letters of References:
- Priv.-Doz. Dr. Johanna Erdmenger
(Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich) - Prof. Dr. Dieter Lüst
(Ludwig-Maximilians-U., Munich) - Prof. Dr. Elias Kiritsis
(University of Crete, Heraklion) - Prof. Dr. Andreas Karch
(U. of Washington, Seattle) - Priv.-Doz. Dr. Daniel Grumiller
(MIT & Vienna U. of Technology)
Collaborations:
- University of Crete: Elias Kiritsis, Matthew Lippert Hongbao Zhang,
- Princeton U.: Matthias Kaminski, Amos Yarom (also Technion, Haifa)
- LPT Orsay: Christos Charmousis (also at Tours U.)
- APC Paris: Blaise Gouteraux
- Marseille CPT: Chris Korthals Altes (also at NIKHEF Amsterdam)
- Perimeter Institute: Alex Buchel
- Victoria U.:Pavel Kovtun, Adam Ritz
- U. of Washington, Seattle: Kristan Jensen
- MPI Munich: Johanna Erdmenger, Jon Shock
- CQUeST & Sogang University: Jeong-Hyuck Park (private page), Corneliu Sochichiu
- Pusan National U.: Deog-Ki Hong (private page)
- Aalto University: Luzi Bergamin
- Fukuoka Inst. Tech.: Kazuo Ghoroku
- Munich University of Technology & Perugia U.: Andrey Zayakin
- Pamukkale University: Muzaffer Adak
- National Taiwan U.: Logan Wu
- Sao Paulo University: Dima Vassilevich
- Vienna University of Technology: Daniel Grumiller (private page)
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
(Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)
Föhringer Ring 6
80805 München
Germany
e-mail: meyer@mppmu.mpg.de
Institut für Theoretische Physik
Universität Leipzig
Vor dem Hospitaltore 1
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
e-mail: Rene.Meyer@itp.uni-leipzig.de