Robbert Dijkgraaf#
| Membership Number: | 2566 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2012 Director and Leon Levy Professor of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
- since 2005 Distinguished University Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Amsterdam,The Netherlands
- 1992 - 2004 Professor of mathematical physics at the University of Amsterdam,The Netherlands
- 1989 - 1991 Research Associate, Princeton University
- 1989 PhD in physics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- String theory
- Interface of mathematics and physics
Honours and Awards
- 2008 - 2012 President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2012 Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- 2012 Comenius Prize
- 2005 Coxeter Lectures, Fields Institute, Toronto
- 2003 The Spinoza Prize
- 2003 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2002 Floer Memorial Lecture, Stanford University
- 2001 Physica Prize of the Dutch Physical Society
