Renate Loll (born 19 June 1962, Aachen) is a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics of the

Radboud University Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century D ...

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 Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

. She received her Ph.D. from Imperial College, 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 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, a ...

in Golm,

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. 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 since 2015.

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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 {{Physicist-stub