Martin Bojowald (born 18 February 1973 in

Jülich Jülich (; in old spellings also known as ''Guelich'' or ''Gülich'', , , Ripuarian: ''Jöllesch'') is a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany. As a border region between the competin ...

) is a German

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

who now works on the faculty of the

Penn State #Redirect Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with ca ...

Physics Department, where he is a member of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos. Prior to joining Penn State he spent several years at the

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) is a Max Planck Institute whose research is aimed at investigating Einstein's theory of relativity and beyond: Mathematics, quantum gravity, astrophysical relativity ...

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and largest city of the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the Havel, River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. He works on

loop quantum gravity Loop quantum gravity (LQG) is a theory of quantum gravity that incorporates matter of the Standard Model into the framework established for the intrinsic quantum gravity case. It is an attempt to develop a quantum theory of gravity based direc ...

and

physical cosmology Physical cosmology is a branch of cosmology concerned with the study of cosmological models. A cosmological model, or simply cosmology, provides a description of the largest-scale structures and dynamics of the universe and allows study of fu ...

and is credited with establishing the sub-field of

loop quantum cosmology Loop quantum cosmology (LQC) is a Wikt:finite, finite, symmetry (physics), symmetry-reduced model of loop quantum gravity (Loop quantum gravity, LQG) that predicts a "quantum bridge" between contracting and expanding cosmology, cosmological branche ...

Positions

* Presently: Professor of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos * January 2006 – June 2009: Assistant Professor of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos * September 2003 – December 2005: Junior Staff Scientist, Albert-Einstein-Institut * September 2000 – August 2003: Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, The Pennsylvania State University

Education

* June 2000 – PhD at

RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), in German ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen'', is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 47,000 students enrolled in 144 study prog ...

in Germany (with distinction), supervisor: Prof. Hans A. Kastrup * July 1998 – August 2000: Fellow of the DFG-Graduate College "Strong and electroweak interactions at high energies" * June 1998 – Diploma, RWTH Aachen (with distinction), supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans A. Kastrup * April 1995 – June 1998: Fellow of the German Merit Foundation * October 1993 – June 2000: RWTH Aachen

Prizes and awards

* Faculty Scholar Medal in the Physical Sciences 2011, Penn State University * Teaching Award 2009, Penn State Society of Physics Students *

NSF NSF may stand for: Political organizations *National Socialist Front, a Swedish National Socialist party *NS-Frauenschaft, the women's wing of the former German Nazi party * National Students Federation, a leftist Pakistani students' political g ...

CAREER AWARD 2008: "Effective Descriptions in Cosmology" * Xanthopoulos Prize 2007 of the

International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ...

* Selected for a portrait in ''Nature'', January 2005 * First Award,

Gravity Research Foundation The Gravity Research Foundation is an organization established in 1948 by businessman Roger Babson (founder of Babson College) to find ways to implement gravitational shielding. Over time, the foundation turned away from trying to block gravity ...

Essay Competition, 2003

References

External links

Loop Quantum Cosmology

Later edition of the above article

Absence of Singularity in Loop Quantum Cosmology

Publications
at

ArXiv arXiv (pronounced as "archive"—the X represents the Chi (letter), Greek letter chi ⟨χ⟩) is an open-access repository of electronic preprints and postprints (known as e-prints) approved for posting after moderation, but not Scholarly pee ...

an interview published in Nature

by Charles Q. Choi. Article on

Space.com Space.com is an online publication focused on outer space, space exploration, astronomy, skywatching and entertainment, with editorial teams based in the United States and United Kingdom. Launched on July 20, 1999, the website offers live coverag ...

using Bojowald as authority. July 1, 2007. Retrieved July 2, 2007. German relativity theorists Loop quantum gravity researchers German cosmologists Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1973 births {{Germany-physicist-stub

Positions

Education

Prizes and awards

See also

References

External links