Willy Fischler

  • Professor
  • Director, Theory Group
  • Physics
  • Weinberg Institute
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Biography

Willy Fischler is the Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include quantum field theory, supersymmetry, string theory, quantum cosmology and statistical mechanics. Fischler is one of the co-fathers of matrix theory and one of the initial researchers to propose the invisible axion as a dark matter candidate and a solution to the strong CP problem. He is also the coauthor of the holographic bound in cosmology.

Research

Research areas of focus span field theory, supersymmetry, string theory, quantum cosmology and statistical mechanics.

Research Areas

  • Particle Physics
  • Cosmology or Space

Centers and Institutes

  • Weinberg Theory Group
  • Weinberg Institute

Education

  • Ph.D., Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1976

Publications