Lubos Motl

Luboš Motl is a Czech theoretical physicist who works on string theory and conceptual problems of quantum gravity. He was born in 1973 in Plzen. He received his master degree from the Charles University in Prague, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Rutgers University (September 11th, 2001) and has been a Harvard Junior Fellow (2001-2004) at Harvard University where he is now an assistant professor.

Together with Robbert Dijkgraaf, Erik Verlinde, and Herman Verlinde, he is a co-founder of Matrix string theory, a nonperturbative definition of string theory. Recently he worked on the pp-wave limit of AdS/CFT correspondence; twistor theory and its application to gauge theory with supersymmetry; black hole thermodynamics and the conjectured relevance of quasinormal modes for loop quantum gravity; deconstruction, and other topics. He has a presence on the Internet, where he often participates in heated discussions supporting string theory against loop quantum gravity. Together with Urs Schreiber and Arvind Rajaraman, he is a co-founder and moderator of the sci.physics.strings newsgroup.

Motl translated "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene to Czech, and together with Milos Zahradnik, he co-authored a Czech textbook on linear algebra (We Grow Linear Algebra).