Bojowald Martin

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Martin Bojowald (born February 18, 1973) is a German physicist who now works at the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos of the Pennsylvania State University, USA. In 2005 he joined the permanent staff of the IGC, after spending several years at the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany. He works on loop quantum gravity and physical cosmology and is credited with establishing the sub-field of loop quantum cosmology.

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actual: Associate Professor of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos
January 2006 - June 2009: Assistant Professor of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos
September 2003 - December 2005: Junior Staff Scientist, Albert-Einstein-Institut
September 2000 - August 2003: Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, The Pennsylvania State University

June 2000: PhD at RWTH Aachen in Germany (with distinction), supervisor: Prof. Hans A. Kastrup
July 1998 - August 2000: Fellow of the DFG-Graduate College "Strong and electroweak interactions at high energies"
June 1998: Diploma, RWTH Aachen (with distinction), supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans A. Kastrup
April 1995 - June 1998: Fellow of the German Merit Foundation
October 1993 - June 2000: RWTH Aachen

Teaching Award 2009, Penn State Society of Physics Students
NSF CAREER AWARD 2008: "Effective Descriptions in Cosmology"
Xanthopoulos Prize 2007 of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation
Selected for a portrait in Nature, January 2005
First Award, Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition, 2003