Vishnumohan "Vishnu" Jejjala (born January 15, 1975) is an

Indian-American Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are citizens of the United States with ancestry from India. The United States Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Native Americans, who have also historically been referred to ...

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 caus ...

who specializes in

string theory In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and interac ...

.Woods, Robert (Ed. ) ''Directory and Survey of Particle Physicists.'' DIANE Publishing, Sharpe, Eric R.; Greenspoon, Arthur (2008). ''Advances in string theory: the First Sowers Workshop in Theoretical Physics, Volume 2007.'' AMS Bookstore, Jejjala was born in Coimbatore, India. His family moved to the United States in 1980. Jejjala earned Bachelor of Science degrees in physics, mathematics, and astronomy from

University of Maryland at College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...

in 1996. He earned a Master of Science and Ph.D. in physics in 2002 from

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

. He did postdoctoral work at

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also ...

from 2002 to 2004,

Durham University , mottoeng = Her foundations are upon the holy hills (Psalm 87:1) , established = (university status) , type = Public , academic_staff = 1,830 (2020) , administrative_staff = 2,640 (2018/19) , chancellor = Sir Thomas Allen , vice_chan ...

from 2004 to 2007, and Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques from 2007 to 2009. Since 2009, he has been at Queen Mary, University of London.

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Queen Mary, University of London Living people 21st-century American physicists 1975 births People from Coimbatore {{US-med-bio-stub