Michael R. Douglas
| Michael R. Douglas | |
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Michael Douglas at Rutgers University
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November 19, 1961 Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Doctoral advisor | John H. Schwarz |
| Known for | Work on string theory landscape |
| Spouse | Nina Ilieva Douglas |
| Children | 2 |
Michael R. Douglas (born November 19, 1961) is an American theoretical physicist and professor currently at Stony Brook University.
Douglas was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Nancy and Ronald G. Douglas, a mathematician specializing in operator algebras. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University. He then went to Caltech and received a Ph.D. in physics in 1988 under John Schwarz, one of the developers and leading researchers in superstring theory.
After completing his Ph.D., Douglas was a postdoc at the University of Chicago for one year, then moved to Rutgers University in 1989 with Dan Friedan and Steve Shenker to help start the New High Energy Theory Center (NHETC). He was promoted to assistant professor in 1990 but spent his first year visiting the École Normale Supérieure and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He became an associate professor at Rutgers in 1995, and left for a year in 1997-1998 to take up a permanent position at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. He then returned to Rutgers and in 2000 became the director of the NHETC. In 2008, Douglas moved from Rutgers to become the first permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, a research center at Stony Brook University.
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