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LUKAS WITKOWSKI PERSONAL INFORMATION Born 04 May 1985 in Gdańsk, Poland. Nationality: German email [email protected] website http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~witkowski address Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg Philosophenweg 19, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany phone (mobile) +49 152 37202619 EMPLOYMENT Postdoc UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, Germany from 2013 Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Associate at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in the String Theory and Beyond-the-Standard-Model group. Research focus: string phenomenology, large-field inflation in string theory, non-perturbative effects in string theory, Dark Radiation. Achievements: Pioneered a new framework for large-field inflation in string theory with spontaneously broken supersymmetry. EDUCATION DPhil UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, Oriel College 2009-2013 DPhil thesis: Sequestering of Kähler moduli in type IIB string theory, Supervisor: Prof. Joseph Conlon, Summary: Studied the scale and structure of soft supersymmetry breaking terms in string models using conformal field theory techniques. MSci & BA UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, Girton College 2005-2007 & 2008-2009 Course: Natural Sciences: Experimental and Theoretical Physics. MSci thesis: Quenched random disorder and x-ray scattering in smectic elastomers (published in Phys.Rev.E), supervisor: Prof. E.M. Terentjev MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA 2007-2008 Exchange student for one academic year, Major: Physics TEACHING Heidelberg SUPERVISOR of a Master thesis on non-perturbative corrections in type IIB string theory. ORGANISING TUTOR for “Quantum Field Theory 1” in 2013/14 and 2015/16: Duties include setting homework problems and the final exam paper, as well as acting as substitute lecturer. TUTOR for “String Theory” in 2014/15: Duties include tutoring students in weekly classes, setting homework problems and exams. ORGANISER of a Master-level student seminar (14 talks) on “Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes”. CO-ORGANISER of a Master-level student seminar (13 talks) on “String Theory Compactifications”.
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LUKAS WITKOWSKI PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born 04 May 1985 in Gdańsk, Poland. Nationality: German
email [email protected]
website http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~witkowski
address Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg Philosophenweg 19, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
phone (mobile) +49 152 37202619
EMPLOYMENT
Postdoc UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, Germany from 2013 Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Associate at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in the String Theory and Beyond-the-Standard-Model group.
Research focus: string phenomenology, large-field inflation in string theory, non-perturbative effects in string theory, Dark Radiation.
Achievements: Pioneered a new framework for large-field inflation in string theory with spontaneously broken supersymmetry.
EDUCATION
DPhil UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK, Oriel College 2009-2013 DPhil thesis: Sequestering of Kähler moduli in type IIB string theory, Supervisor: Prof. Joseph Conlon, Summary: Studied the scale and structure of soft supersymmetry breaking
terms in string models using conformal field theory techniques.
MSci & BA UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK, Girton College 2005-2007 & 2008-2009 Course: Natural Sciences: Experimental and Theoretical Physics. MSci thesis: Quenched random disorder and x-ray scattering in smectic elastomers (published in Phys.Rev.E), supervisor: Prof. E.M. Terentjev
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, USA 2007-2008 Exchange student for one academic year, Major: Physics
TEACHING
Heidelberg SUPERVISOR of a Master thesis on non-perturbative corrections in type IIB string theory.
ORGANISING TUTOR for “Quantum Field Theory 1” in 2013/14 and 2015/16: Duties include setting homework problems and the final exam paper, as well as acting as substitute lecturer.
TUTOR for “String Theory” in 2014/15: Duties include tutoring students in weekly classes, setting homework problems and exams.
ORGANISER of a Master-level student seminar (14 talks) on “Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes”.
CO-ORGANISER of a Master-level student seminar (13 talks) on “String Theory Compactifications”.
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Oxford GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT at ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD: 2010-2013 I taught 2nd and 3rd year students in small groups in Quantum Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Special Relativity and Particle Physics (more than 150 contact hours). I also interviewed candidates for undergraduate admission to the University of Oxford.
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
Scholar of the GERMAN NATIONAL ACADEMIC FOUNDATION 2007-2010 (“Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”).
Awards for academic excellence in final examinations by Girton College, Cambridge in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
PUBLICATIONS & PREPRINTS
1. Mark D. Goodsell and Lukas T. Witkowski, Instanton induced Yukawa couplings from distant E3 and E(-1) instantons, arXiv:1509.00852 [hep-th]
2. Joerg Jaeckel, Viraf M. Mehta and Lukas T. Witkowski, Musings on cosmological relaxation and the hierarchy problem, submitted to JHEP, arXiv:1508.03321 [hep-ph]
3. Arthur Hebecker, Patrick Mangat, Fabrizio Rompineve and Lukas T. Witkowski, Winding out of the Swamp: Evading the Weak Gravity Conjecture with F-term Winding Inflation?, Phys.Lett. B748 (2015) 455-462, arXiv:1503.07912 [hep-th]
4. Arthur Hebecker, Patrick Mangat, Fabrizio Rompineve and Lukas T. Witkowski, Tuning and Backreaction in F-term Axion Monodromy Inflation, Nucl. Phys. B894 (2015) 456-495, arXiv:1411.2032 [hep-th]
5. Arthur Hebecker, Sebastian C. Kraus and Lukas T. Witkowski, D7-Brane Chaotic Inflation, Phys. Lett. B, 737 (2014) 16-22, arXiv:1404.3711 [hep-th]
6. Arthur Hebecker, Patrick Mangat, Fabrizio Rompineve and Lukas T. Witkowski, Dark Radiation predictions from general Large Volume Scenarios, J. High Energy Phys. 09 (2014) 140, arXiv:1403.6810 [hep-ph]
7. Stephen Angus, Joseph P. Conlon, M.C. David Marsh, Andrew Powell and Lukas T. Witkowski, Soft X-ray Excess in the Coma Cluster from a Cosmic Axion Background, JCAP 1409 (2014) 026, arXiv:1312.3947 [astro-ph]
8. Marcus Berg, Joseph P. Conlon, David Marsh and Lukas T. Witkowski, Superpotential de-sequestering in string models, J. High Energy Phys. 02 (2013) 018, arXiv:1207.1103 [hep-th]
9. Joseph P. Conlon and Lukas T. Witkowski, Scattering and Sequestering of Blow-Up Moduli in Local String Models, J. High Energy Phys. 12 (2011) 028, arXiv:1109.4153 [hep-th]
10. Mathew Bullimore, Joseph P. Conlon and Lukas T. Witkowski, Kinetic mixing of U(1)s for local string models, J. High Energy Phys. 11 (2010) 142, arXiv:1009.2380 [hep-th]
11. Lukas T. Witkowski and Eugene M. Terentjev, Quenched random disorder and x-ray scattering in smectic elastomers, Phys. Rev. E 80, 051701 (2009)
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INVITED SEMINAR TALKS
2015 Vienna University of Technology, Austria Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany 2014 University of Bonn, Germany DESY, Hamburg, Germany 2013 University of Liverpool, UK 2012 IPMU, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan
CONFERENCE TALKS
2015 Parallel session talk at "DESY Theory Workshop 2015", DESY, Hamburg, Germany Parallel session talk at "PASCOS 2015", ICTP Trieste, Italy Parallel session talk at "String Phenomenology 2015", Madrid, Spain Talk at "XXVII Beyond the Standard Model", Bad Honnef, Germany 2014 Parallel session talk at "DESY Theory Workshop 2014", DESY, Hamburg, Germany Parallel session talk at "Planck 2014", Paris, France Parallel session talk at "String Phenomenology 2014", ICTP Trieste, Italy 2012 Short plenary talk at "From Strings to LHC - III", Puri, India Parallel session talk at "String Phenomenology 2012", Cambridge, UK 2011 Parallel session talk at "String Phenomenology 2011", Madison, WI, USA
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Languages Trilingual (German, English, Polish), intermediate French
Computing Experienced with Mathematica. Intermediate C, C++.
REFEREES
Prof. Joseph Conlon Prof. Arthur Hebecker Rudolf Peierls Centre for Institute for Theoretical Physics Theoretical Physics University of Oxford University of Heidelberg 1 Keble Road Philosophenweg 19 Oxford OX1 3NP 69120 Heidelberg United Kingdom Germany
[email protected] [email protected]
Prof. Jörg Jäckel Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Heidelberg Philosophenweg 16 69120 Heidelberg Germany
