Veronika E. Hubeny is an American
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 ...
and academic who specialises in
string theory and
quantum gravity. Since 2015, she has been a
professor
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in the Department of Physics of
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The inst ...
. Previously, Hubeny was
Professor
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of Physics at
Durham University, where she had worked from 2005 to 2015.
From January to April 2014, she was a member of the
Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent schola ...
in Princeton, New Jersey.
In 2019, she was selected as a fellow of the
International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation The International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG) is a learned society established in 1971 with the goal to promote research on general relativity (GR) and gravitation. To that end, it encourages communication between relativi ...
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American string theorists
American women physicists
Physics educators
21st-century American physicists
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Academics of Durham University
University of California, Davis faculty
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
American women academics
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Quantum physicists
Quantum gravity physicists
21st-century American women scientists
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