Professor Konstadinos Sfetsos

Professor

Qualifications: Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, USC, Los Angeles, USA, 1993

Email:
Phone: Work: 01483 68 9253
Room no: 33 AA 04

Further information

Research Interests

Theoretical and Mathematical research in:

  • Quantum gravity and string theory.
  • Non-perturbative aspects in gauge and field theories; Gauge/Gravity correspondence
  • Dualities in string and field theories.
  • Solutions of low-energy effective supergravities of superstrings and M-theory.
  • Fundamental aspects of black-hole physics and string cosmology.
  • Conformal field theory and integrable systems.

Teaching

Present teaching: Representation Theory (MMath Level)

Past teaching:

  • Introductory Physics (Mechanics, Electricity-Magnetism, Thermodynamics)
  • Mathematics Methods for Physics (undergraduate and postgraduate)
  • Classical Electrodynamics (postgraduate)
  • Quantum Mechanics (postgraduate)
  • Field Theory (postgraduate)
  • General Relativity (postgraduate)
  • String Theory (postgraduate)
  • Group Theory (postgraduate)

Postgraduate students:


D. Zoakos (2002-07); from Fall 2007 → Santiago de Compostella, Spain.
K. Siampos (2005-10); from Fall 2010 → Ecole Polytehnique, Paris, France.
N. Karaiskos (2008-12); from Fall 2012 →Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany.
G. Itsios (2011-).