Prof. Dr. Niklas Beisert
Prof. Dr. Niklas Beisert
Full Professor at the Department of Physics
ETH Zürich
Additional information
Research area
Professor Beisert conducts research in the field of theoretical physics, specialising in quantum field theory, string theory and symmetries.
Niklas Beisert has been a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in the Department of Physics since August 2011.
He was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1977.
Niklas Beisert studied physics at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen from 1996 to 2001, obtaining a diploma. He also attended an MSc Course at Imperial College London, Great Britain in 1999/2000.
He then researched at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam-Golm, Germany, and received a PhD from Humboldt University of Berlin for his work in 2004.
From 2004 to 2006 he was a postdoctoral fellow, then lecturer and ultimately Assistant Professor at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA.
From 2006 to 2011 Niklas Beisert headed a Max Planck research group at the MPI for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam-Golm.
Honours
| Year | Distinction |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| 2013 | ERC Consolidator Grant: GaugeGravSym, Extended Symmetries in Gauge and Gravity Theories |
| 2013 | New Horizons in Physics Prize, Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation |
| 2011 | Participated in the 25th Solvay Conference of Physics |
| 2010 | Talk invitation for the International Congress of Mathematicians |
| 2007 | Gribov Medal from the European Physical Society |
| 2006 | Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| 2005 | Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society |
| 2001 | Undergraduate and PhD scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation |
Additional information
Professor Beisert is married and has three children.
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2025
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 402-0180-00L | Ethics and Scientific Integrity for Doctoral Students in Physics |
| 402-0844-00L | Quantum Field Theory II |
Links
Research GroupList of Publications and Preprints
Lecture Materials
Lecture notes, exercise problems and recording are published on the following website:
LaTeX Packages
I have authored several LaTeX packages to efficiently manage various aspects of writing in science and education:
Climate and the Scientific Community
Last but not least, I engage in questions regarding the impact of our mode of conducting research within the scientific community on the climate of the earth. In this context, I also communicate basic knowledge concerning the climate crisis.
Working Group CO₂ at D-PHYS
In spring and summer 2020, I headed a working group on CO₂ emissions of the Department of Physics. The aim was to work out suggestions to make our operations compatible with the goals of the Paris agreement. We composed a detailed report document with a plausible CO₂ roadmap which is presented at an accompanying website.
Workshop “Sustainable HEP”
This virtual workshop (28–30 June 2021) discussed the transition to a sustainable future in the field of high-energy physics (HEP), in particular, changes in scientific travel culture based on lessons from the pandemic year 2020. See the external page workshop website for details, materials and talk recordings.
Materials
The following materials are distributed under the external page Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license.