Astrid Eichhorn What is the Fundamental Microscopic Structure of Space-Time in our Universe?
Astrid Eichhorn was appointed associate professor at CP3-Origins at the University of Southern Denmark in 2019. Since 2016, she built up a research group at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Heidelberg University as part of the DFG’s (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Emmy Noether Programme. She is a Visiting Fellow at Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and has held a Junior Research Fellowship at Imperial College London. Her research interests include asymptotically safe quantum gravity and matter and Renormalization Group flows in discrete models of quantum space-time. In April 2018 she was appointed as a new member of the Junge Akademie.
Area of Research
Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity and Matter, UV Completion of the Standard Model, Higgs Sector in (Beyond) SM Settings, Renormalization Group Flows in Discrete Models of Quantum Spacetime, Tensor models for Quantum Gravity, Causal Set Quantum Gravity
since 2019
Associate Professor (CP3-Origins)
University of Southern Denmark/Odense
since 2016
Junior Research Group Leader
Universität Heidelberg
Institute for Theoretical Physics
2017-2020
Visiting Fellow
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
2014-2016
Junior Research Fellow
Imperial College London
2011-2014
(Senior) Postdoctoral Researcher
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
2008-2011
PhD in Theoretical Physics
Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
2008-2008
Diploma in Physics
Heidelberg University (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Prizes
- Teaching Prize of the Faculty for Physics and Astronomy, University of Heidelberg
- Appointed Member of the “Junge Akademie”, Germany Nominated by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Fellowships
- Visiting Fellowship at Perimeter Institute (2017-2020)
- Emmy Noether Junior Research Group (DFG, Germany) (2016-2021)
- Imperial College Junior Research Fellowship (UK) (2014)
- Banting Fellowship (Canada, declined)
What are the building blocks of our universe that everything is made of? In this video, ASTRID EICHHORN explains how her work seeks to reveal the fundamental microscopic structure of space-time. While recent pioneering experiments have confirmed aspects of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, this work seeks to overcome the limitations of current observational technology through theoretical investigations of the relationships between quantum space-time, quantum gravity and matter. With undoubted implications for our understanding of Dark Matter and the Standard Model of particle physics, the real-world applications of this kind of foundational research can have profound effects on all of our lives.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10642
Mass Difference for Charged Quarks from Quantum Gravity
- Astrid Eichhorn and Aaron Held
- arXiv
- Published in 2018
Quantum Gravity Fluctuations Flatten the Planck-Scale Higgs Potential
- Astrid Eichhorn, Yuta Hamada, Johannes Lumma and Masatoshi Yamada
- Physical Review D
- Published in 2018
Quantum-Gravity Predictions for the Fine-Structure Constant
- Astrid Eichhorn, Aaron Held and Christof Wetterich
- Physics Letters B
- Published in 2018
Upper Bound on the Abelian Gauge Coupling from Asymptotic Safety
- Astrid Eichhorn and Fleur Versteegen
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published in 2018
Top Mass from Asymptotic Safety
- Astrid Eichhorn and Aaron Held
- Physics Letters B
- Published in 2018
