Eric D’Hoker (born 18 October 1956 in Belgium) is a Belgian-American theoretical physicist.

Biography

D’Hoker studied from 1974 to 1975 at

Paris 13 University Sorbonne Paris North University () is a public university based in Paris, France. It is one of the thirteen universities that succeeded the University of Paris in 1968. It is a multidisciplinary university located in north of Paris, in the munici ...

in Orsay, from 1975 to 1976 at the

Lycée Condorcet The Lycée Condorcet () is a secondary school in Paris, France, located at 8, rue du Havre, in the city's 9th arrondissement. Founded in 1803, it is one of the four oldest high schools in Paris and also one of the most prestigious. Since its inc ...

, and from 1976 to 1978 at the

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. In 1978 he became a graduate student in physics at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

, where in 1981 he received his Ph.D. with future Nobel Laureate

David Gross David Jonathan Gross (; born February 19, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. ...

as his advisor. As a postdoc, D'Hoker worked from 1981 to 1984 at the Center for Theoretical Physics at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

. He then worked an assistant professor from 1984 to 1986 at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

and from 1986 to 1988 at Princeton University. In 1988, D'Hoker became an associate professor at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

(UCLA). He was appointed a full professor in 1990 and a distinguished professor in 2009. From the 1980s onwards, he collaborated extensively with mathematician Duong H. Phong on the geometry underlying superstring perturbation theory, among other topics in the mathematics of supersymmetry and superstring theory. Another topic of D'Hoker's research is integrable systems. In 1997, D'Hoker spent time at the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Ein ...

. He has held visiting positions at several academic institutions, including the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

Kyoto University , or , is a National university, national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second oldest university in Japan. The university has ten undergraduate faculties, eighteen gra ...

, and

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...

. From 1998 to 2001, he served as President of the

Aspen Center for Physics The Aspen Center for Physics (ACP) is a non-profit institution for physics research located in Aspen, Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains region of the United States. Since its foundation in 1962, it has hosted distinguished physicists for short-term ...

. In 2005, he was elected fellow of the

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for his "contributions to Quantum Field Theory and String Theory, including string perturbation theory, supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and AdS-CFT correspondence". In 1996 he married Jody Enders. In 2004 he became a U.S. citizen.

Selected publications

*with Phong: Multiloop amplitudes for the bosonic Polyakov string, Nucl. Phys. B, vol. 269, 1986, pp. 205–234 *with Phong: Loop amplitudes for the fermionic string, Nucl. Phys. B, vol. 278, 1986, pp. 225–241 *with Phong: On determinants of Laplacians on

Riemann surface In mathematics, particularly in complex analysis, a Riemann surface is a connected one-dimensional complex manifold. These surfaces were first studied by and are named after Bernhard Riemann. Riemann surfaces can be thought of as deformed vers ...

s, Communications in Mathematical Physics, vol. 104, 1986, pp. 537–545 *with Phong: The geometry of string perturbation theory, Reviews of Modern Physics, vol. 60, 1988, pp. 917–1065 *with Phong: Seiberg-Witten theory and integrable Systems, Lectures delivered at Edinburgh and Kyoto
Arxiv 1999
*with Phong: Lectures on supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and integrable systems, in: Yvan Saint-Aubin, Luc Vinet (eds.)
Theoretical physics at the end of the twentieth century
CRM Summer School, Banff, Springer 2002, pp. 1–125 *with Phong: Two-loop superstrings.: I. Main formulas, Phys. Lett. B, vol. 529, 2002, pp. 241–255 *with Phong: Lectures on two loop superstrings, Hangzhou, Peking 2002
Arxiv

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