Members

• Head of the Group

  • Matthias Blau

• Postdocs

  • Meer Ashwinkumar (joint appointment with the group of Susanne Reffert)
  
  
  • (No position is currently available)

• PhD Students

  • (No position is currently available)

• Master Students

  • Ivan Begic
  
  
  • Dominic Diem
  
  
  • Niels Slotboom
  
  
  • Geraldine Genz (from 09.2024)
  
  
  • Norina Michel (from 09.2024)
  
  Please note: due to lack of time and resources I am not available for the supervision of external students or summer internships!

• We are members of the NCCR (National Center of Competence in Research) SwissMAP (The Mathematics of Physics)

• Close links and interactions exist with the group of Susanne Reffert

• The work of this group is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation

Research

• Quantum Gravity and String Theory


• General Relativity


• Topological Field Theory

Current Activities

• Seminars and Journal Clubs:
  • Fields and Strings (Tuesday/Thursday)
  • AEC (Wednesday) and ITP (Friday) Seminars
  • Lunch Seminars (Thursday)


• Conference Series: GeNeZiSS Mini-Conference Series of the Swiss String Theory Community: Next Meeting: Friday December 6 2024, Bern


• Public Lectures: Physik am Freitag Public lectures on various aspects of physics for high-shool students and a general audience (in German).


• Public Lectures: Einstein Lectures

Getting in Touch with us

• Postal Address:
  
  
  • Institut für Theoretische Physik
  • Universität Bern
  • Sidlerstrasse 5
  • CH-3012 Bern
• Telephone: +41 31 684 86 26 (Matthias Blau)
• Secretary: +41 31 684 86 31
• Fax: +41 31 684 38 21
• e-mail: typically "lastname at itp.unibe.ch" (see the ITP Staff page for details)