1. Nima Arkani-Hamed is an Iranian-American-Canadian theoretical physicist, with interests in high-energy physics, quantum field theory, string theory, cosmology and collider physics.
10 Facts About Nima Arkani-Hamed
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Nima Arkani-Hamed is director of the Carl P Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation at the Institute and director of The Center for Future High Energy Physics in Beijing, China.
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Nima Arkani-Hamed was born in Houston and spent the early years of his life between Iran and the United States.
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Nima Arkani-Hamed, who was 10-years old at the time, fled with his family to Canada.
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Nima Arkani-Hamed graduated from the University of Toronto with a joint honours degree in mathematics and physics in 1993, and went to the University of California, Berkeley, for his graduate studies, where he worked under the supervision of Lawrence Hall.
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Nima Arkani-Hamed took a leave of absence from Berkeley to visit Harvard University beginning January 2001, and stayed at Harvard as a professor from 2002 to 2008.
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Since 2013, Nima Arkani-Hamed has been a leader in research on the amplituhedron as a geometric structure that simplifies calculations of particle interactions in certain quantum field theories.
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Nima Arkani-Hamed was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.
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Nima Arkani-Hamed gave the Messenger lectures at Cornell University in 2010, and was an AD White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University from 2013 to 2019.
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Nima Arkani-Hamed was one of six physicists featured in the award-winning 2013 documentary film Particle Fever, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.