Dr. Alexander Westphal

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsTheoretical Physics,Elementary Particle Physics
Keywordscosmological constant problem, de Sitter vacua, flux compactifications, inflation in string theory, moduli stabilization

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityHamburg
InstitutionDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
InstituteTheory Group
Homepagehttp://www.desy.de/~westphal/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Andrei LindeDepartment of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2007

Programme(s)

2007Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2007Alexander Westphal: de Sitter String Vacua from Kahler Uplifting. In: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2007, 102-122