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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Lorentz Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Contributions to gauge/gravity duality, relating gravitational physics in a spacetime and quantum field theory on the boundary of the spacetime
  • 2012 - Pomeranchuk Prize, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • 2012 - Oskar Klein Medal, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1999 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Juan Maldacena is affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Physics and Astronomy, with a significant emphasis on several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, as well as Geometry and Topology.

The main topics covered in Maldacena's research include:

  • Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
  • Algebraic structures and combinatorial models

Maldacena's publication record shows frequent appearances in a variety of scholarly venues. These include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of High Energy Physics
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • SciPost Physics
  • Oftalmología clínica y experimental.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Replica wormholes and the entropy of Hawking radiation", 2020, Journal of High Energy Physics
  • "The entropy of Hawking radiation", 2021, Reviews of Modern Physics
  • "Causality constraints on corrections to the graviton three-point coupling", 2022, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • "The Page curve of Hawking radiation from semiclassical geometry", 2023, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • "Two dimensional nearly de Sitter gravity", 2021, Journal of High Energy Physics

Frequent collaborators in Maldacena's research activities include:

  • Yiming Chen
  • Henry W. Lin
  • Anna Biggs
  • Liza Rozenberg
  • Jieru Shan

Throughout their career, Maldacena has received several awards and recognitions. These include the Lorentz Medal from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018), election to the National Academy of Sciences (2013), fellowship at The World Academy of Sciences (2013), the Oskar Klein Medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2012), and the Pomeranchuk Prize from the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (2012).

They were also honored with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2012 for contributions related to gauge/gravity duality, linking gravitational physics in spacetime with quantum field theory on its boundary. Additional distinctions include fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007), the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics awarded by the American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics (2007), as well as fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation (1999) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1998).

Best Publications

  • The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity

    Juan Martin Maldacena

  • Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity

    Ofer Aharony;Steven S. Gubser;Juan Martin Maldacena;Hirosi Ooguri;Hirosi Ooguri

  • N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals

    Ofer Aharony;Oren Bergman;Oren Bergman;Daniel Louis Jafferis;Juan Maldacena

  • Strings in flat space and pp waves from Script N = 4 Super Yang Mills

    David Eliecer Berenstein;Juan Martin Maldacena;Horatiu Stefan Nastase

  • Non-Gaussian features of primordial fluctuations in single field inflationary models

    Juan Martin Maldacena

  • Strings in flat space and pp waves from ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang Mills

    David Berenstein;Juan Maldacena;Horatiu Nastase

  • Strings in flat space and pp waves from N = 4 Super Yang Mills

    David Eliecer Berenstein;Juan Martin Maldacena;Horatiu Stefan Nastase

  • A bound on chaos

    Juan Maldacena;Stephen H. Shenker;Douglas Stanford

  • Wilson loops in large N field theories

    Juan Martin Maldacena

  • Remarks on the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

    Juan Maldacena;Douglas Stanford

  • Eternal black holes in anti-de Sitter

    Juan Martin Maldacena;Juan Martin Maldacena

  • Eternal Black Holes in AdS

    Juan M. Maldacena

  • Towards inflation in string theory

    Shamit Kachru;Renata Kallosh;Andrei D. Linde;Juan Martin Maldacena

  • Supergravity description of field theories on curved manifolds and a no go theorem

    Juan Martin Maldacena;Carlos Nunez

  • Generalized gravitational entropy

    Aitor Lewkowycz;Juan Maldacena

  • Cool horizons for entangled black holes

    Juan Maldacena;Leonard Susskind

  • Gluon scattering amplitudes at strong coupling

    Luis F. Alday;Luis F. Alday;Juan Martin Maldacena

  • Conformal symmetry and its breaking in two dimensional Nearly Anti-de-Sitter space

    Juan Maldacena;Douglas Stanford;Zhenbin Yang

  • Supergravity and The Large N Limit of Theories With Sixteen Supercharges

    Nissan Itzhaki;Juan Martin Maldacena;Jacob Sonnenschein;Shimon Yankielowicz

  • Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity

    Juan Maldacena

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Strominger
Andrew Strominger Harvard University
Luis F. Alday
Luis F. Alday University of Oxford
Nathan Seiberg
Nathan Seiberg Institute for Advanced Study
Davide Gaiotto
Davide Gaiotto Perimeter Institute
Igor R. Klebanov
Igor R. Klebanov Princeton University
Gregory W. Moore
Gregory W. Moore Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Hirosi Ooguri
Hirosi Ooguri California Institute of Technology
Ofer Aharony
Ofer Aharony Weizmann Institute of Science
Gary T. Horowitz
Gary T. Horowitz University of California, Santa Barbara
Steven S. Gubser
Steven S. Gubser Princeton University

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