Robbert Dijkgraaf#
| Membership Number: | 2566 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://staff.science.uva.nl/~rhd |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2012 Director and Leon Levy Professor of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
- since 2005 Distinguished University Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Amsterdam,The Netherlands
- 1992-2004 Professor of mathematical physics at the University of Amsterdam,The Netherlands
- 1989-1991 Research Associate, Princeton University
- 1989 PhD in physics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- String theory
- Interface of mathematics and physics
Honours and Awards
- President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences(2008–2012)
- Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (2012)
- Comenius Prize (2012)
- Member of Academia Europaea (2008)
- Coxeter Lectures, Fields Institute, Toronto (2005)
- The Spinoza Prize (2003)
- Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)
- Floer Memorial Lecture, Stanford University (2002)
- Physica Prize of the Dutch Physical Society (2001)
