Eva Silverstein is a string theorist. She is married to fellow string theorist Shamit Kachru. String theory is a model of fundamental physics whose building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects (strings) rather than the zero-dimensional points (particles) that are the basis of the Standard Model of particle physics. ... Shamit Kachru is a string theorist who is a professor of physics at Stanford University. ...

Education

• A.B., Physics, Harvard University, 1992
• Ph.D., Physics, Princeton University, 1996

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Professional academic history

• Postdoctoral Associate, Rutgers University, 1996-1997
• Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1997-2001
• Associate Professor, SLAC and Stanford Physics Department, Stanford, 2001-present

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Awards and honors

• MacArthur Fellow, 1999
• Bergmann Memorial Award, 1999
• DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator, 1999 - 2001
• Sloan Fellowship, 1999 - 2003

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Research areas

String theory, gravity, and particle physics: including moduli stabilization, supersymmetry breaking, and the microphysics of dark energy in string theory; dynamics of interacting scalar fields in cosmology and particle physics; unification of string vacua, singularity resolution, and dualities.

External links

• Her faculty page at Stanford
• list of her papers