Thomas Faulkner (physicist)

Thomas Faulkner

Tom Faulkner at Institute for Advanced Study

Born|

Melbourne, Australia

Nationality| Australian
Citizenship| Australia n
Alma mater| University of Melbourne
MIT
Scientific career
Fields| Theoretical Physics
Institutions| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Institute for Advanced Study
UCSB
MIT
Doctoral advisor| Hong Liu
Krishna Rajagopal

Thomas Faulkner is a string theorist and professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, born in Melbourne, Australia . His undergraduate work was in physics at the University of Melbourne in Australia, from which he graduated in 2003.

His graduate work was in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Faulkner obtained his Ph.D. in 2009. His thesis examined the use of string theory techniques to study quantum chromodynamics (QCD) under extreme conditions. He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Santa-Barbara (2009-2012), and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (2012-2013), where he became interested in entanglement entropy and the role it plays in fundamental aspects of quantum gravity. He became an assistant professor of physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2014.

## Selected publications

Faulkner's publications are available on the SPIRES HEP Literature Database.

## External links

* Thomas Faulkner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
* Publications on ArXiv
* Faculty webpage

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