Renate Loll (born 19 June 1962,
Aachen
Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...
) is a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics of the
Radboud University in
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about ...
. She previously worked at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of
Utrecht University. She received her Ph.D. from
Imperial College
Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...
, London, in 1989. In 2001 she joined the permanent staff of the ITP, after spending several years at the
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Golm,
Germany. With
Jan Ambjørn and Polish physicist
Jerzy Jurkiewicz she helped develop a new approach to nonperturbative
quantization of gravity, that of
Causal Dynamical Triangulations.
She has been a member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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since 2015.
References
External links
Prof Loll's website*
1962 births
20th-century German physicists
20th-century German women scientists
21st-century German physicists
21st-century German women scientists
Alumni of Imperial College London
German women physicists
Living people
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
People from Aachen
Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen
University of Freiburg alumni
University of Potsdam alumni
Academic staff of Utrecht University
20th-century German women
21st-century German women
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