Graham Kribs is an American theoretical

particle physicist Particle physics or high energy physics is the study of Elementary particle, fundamental particles and fundamental interaction, forces that constitute matter and radiation. The fundamental particles in the universe are classified in the Standa ...

at the

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. He was elected a

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in 2015.

Early life and education

Graham Douglas Kribs was born in 1971, the son of Robert and Margaret Kribs. Kribs did undergraduate work at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

, and he participated in a Fermilab high energy physics program with Drasko Jovanovic. After that summer he "was hooked on high energy physics." He earned a Ph.D. at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

in 1998. His dissertation, supervised by

Gordon L. Kane Gordon Leon Kane (born January 19, 1937) is ''Victor Weisskopf Distinguished University Professor'' at the University of Michigan and director emeritus at the Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics (LCTP), a leading center for the advancement of ...

, was titled, ''Supersymmetric phenomenology, model building, and signals.''

Career

Kribs pursued studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies at

Princeton, New Jersey Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was established on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township, both of whi ...

, between 2003–2005, and again in 2013. Kribs joined the University of Oregon Physics faculty in 2005 and was promoted to full professor in 2015. He serves there as Director of the Institute for Fundamental Science, which "enhances the experimental, theoretical, and astronomy research activities at the University of Oregon." His research interests have included, " new physics,

supersymmetry In a supersymmetric theory the equations for force and the equations for matter are identical. In theoretical and mathematical physics, any theory with this property has the principle of supersymmetry (SUSY). Dozens of supersymmetric theories e ...

, extra dimensions and

black holes A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light or other electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can def ...

Selected publications

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Awards, honors

* 2015 Elected Fellow of the

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. Citation: ''For contributions to our understanding of physics beyond the Standard Model, in particular theories with supersymmetry and extra generations of matter.'' * 2011 Ben Lee Fellow,

Fermilab Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. Since 2007, Fermilab has been operat ...

, "awarded to visiting theorists with outstanding achievements in particle physics".

References

External links

Official website
* . Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics. (video, 1:31:32) * . Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics. (video, 1:29:51) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kribs, Graham 1971 births Theoretical physicists University of Toronto alumni University of Michigan alumni 21st-century American physicists Living people University of Oregon faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society