Education
Princeton University.
Theoretical physicist university professor
Princeton University.
Among his many discoveries, the most famous one is the most reliable realization of the holographic principle – namely the AdS/CFT correspondence, the conjecture about the equivalence of string theory on Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, and a conformal field theory defined on the boundary of the AdS space. In 2013, Maldacena co-authored an analysis of the 2012 black hole firewall paradox with Leonard Susskind, arguing that the paradox can be resolved if entangled particles are connected by minor wormholes."
Maldacena obtained his licenciatura (a 6-year degree) in 1991 at the Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina, under the supervision of Gerardo Aldazábal. He then obtained his Doctor of Philosophy at Princeton University under the supervision of Curtis Callan in 1996, and went on to a post-doctoral position at Princeton University.
In 1997, he joined Harvard University as associate professor, being quickly promoted to Professor of Physics in 1999.
Since 2001 he has been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Maldacena has received these awards: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1998 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, 1998 MacArthur Fellowship, 1999 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Husein Prize for Young Scientists, 1999 Sackler Prize in Physics, 2000 Xanthopoulos International Award for Research in Gravitational Physics, 2001 Pius XI Medal, 2002 Edward A. Bouchet Award of the American Physical Society, 2004 Dannie Heineman Prize, 2007 Dirac Medal, 2008 Pomeranchuk Prize, 2012 Fundamental Physics Prize, 2012. Diamond Konex Award as the most important scientist in the last decade in Argentina, 2013.
Pontifical Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
