Fotini Markopoulou
| Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 3, 1971 Athens, Greece |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions |
Pennsylvania State University Imperial College London Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Santa Fe Institute Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| Alma mater |
Queen Mary University of London Imperial College London Royal College of Art |
| Academic advisors | Christopher Isham |
| Influences |
Christopher Isham Roger Penrose |
Fotini G. Markopoulou-Kalamara (Greek: Φωτεινή Μαρκοπούλου-Καλαμαρά; born April 3, 1971) is a Greek theoretical physicist interested in foundational mathematics and quantum mechanics. She was a faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and was an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo.
Markopoulou received her Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 1998 and held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Imperial College London, and Pennsylvania State University. She shared First Prize in the Young Researchers competition at the Ultimate Reality Symposium in Princeton, New Jersey.
She has been influenced by researchers such as Christopher Isham who call attention to the unstated assumption in most modern physics that physical properties are most naturally calibrated by a real-number continuum. She, and others, attempt to make explicit some of the implicit mathematical assumptions underpinning modern theoretical physics and cosmology.
In her interdisciplinary paper "The Internal Description of a Causal Set: What the Universe Looks Like from the Inside", Markopoulou instantiates some abstract terms from mathematical category theory to develop straightforward models of space-time. It proposes simple quantum models of space-time based on category-theoretic notions of a topos and its subobject classifier (which has a Heyting algebra structure, but not necessarily a Boolean algebra structure).
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