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The theoretical physicist Prof. Dieter Lüst investigates string theory, a fundamental theory that attempts
to explain all physical forces and particles. In 2000, the German Research Foundation considered
his scientific achievements worthy of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, one of the most highly endowed
German research prizes. In the context of the “Origin and Structure of the Universe”
Cluster of Excellence in 2012 he was awarded an “Advanced Grant”, a program with which the European
Research Council ERC funds new research projects of outstanding scientists.
Prof. Lüst was born in Chicago in 1956 and studied physics in Munich, completing his doctorate
there as well in 1985. He spent 1985 and 1986 as a Research Fellow at the California Institute of
Technology in Pasadena, then moved to the Max Planck Institute for Physics for the first time, remaining there until 1988. His next appointment was at CERN in Geneva where he undertook research
work until 1990 and also gained the German postdoctoral lecturing qualification at the LMU Munich.
In 1993, he was appointed professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since 1998,
he has been an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
in Potsdam. In 2004, he returned to the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich as Director
and at the same time became professor of mathematical physics at the LMU Munich,
where he is also spokesperson of the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics. Since Juni 2018 he has been heading the Max Planck Institute for Physics as Managing Director.
- Spokesperson of the DFG Graduate School "Particle Physics", HU Berlin (1995-2004)
- External Scientific Member of the MPI for Gravitational Physics (since 1998)
- Co-ordinator of the EU-RTN Network "Basic Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe" (since 2004)
- Spokesperson of the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (since 2005)
- Spokesperson of the elite study course "Theoretical and Mathematical Physics", LMU Munich (since 2006)
- Head of the ERC Advanced Grants "Fundamental Aspects of Strings and Gravity" (seit 2013)
Swampland, Gradient Flow and Infinite Distance
Alex Kehagias, Dieter Lüst, Severin Lüst
JHEP 04 (2020) 170 • e-Print: 1910.00453 [hep-th]
AdS and the Swampland
Dieter Lüst, Eran Palti, Cumrun Vafa
Phys.Lett.B 797 (2019) 134867 • e-Print: 1906.05225 [hep-th]
Scalar Fields, Hierarchical UV/IR Mixing and The Weak Gravity Conjecture
Dieter Lüst, Eran Palti
JHEP 02 (2018) 040 • e-Print: 1709.01790 [hep-th]
The Spacetime of Double Field Theory: Review, Remarks, and Outlook
Olaf Hohm , Dieter Lüst, Barton Zwiebach
Fortsch.Phys. 61 (2013) 926-966 • e-Print: 1309.2977 [hep-th]
Four-dimensional String Compactifications with D-Branes, Orientifolds and Fluxes
Ralph Blumenhagen, Boris Kors, Dieter Lüst, Stephan Stieberger
Published in: Phys.Rept. 445 (2007) 1-193 • e-Print: hep-th/0610327 [hep-th]
Strong - weak coupling duality and nonperturbative effects in string theory
A. Font, Luis E. Ibanez, D. Lüst, F. Quevedo
Phys.Lett.B 249 (1990) 35-43
Chiral Four-Dimensional Heterotic Strings from Selfdual Lattices
W. Lerche, D. Lüst, A.N. Schellekens
Nucl.Phys.B 287 (1987) 477