Johanna Erdmenger

Johanna Karen Erdmenger
EducationHamburg University (Diplom)
Cambridge University (Part III)
Cambridge University (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Würzburg
Thesis Implications of Conformal Invariance for Quantum Field Theories in General Dimensions
Doctoral advisorHugh Osborn
Doctoral students
  • Martin Ammon
  • Matthias Kaminski
  • René Meyer
  • Charlotte Sleight


Johanna Karen Erdmenger (born 1969) is a German theoretical physicist whose research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and gauge/gravity duality, with applications on all scales from particle physics and superfluids to black holes and cosmology. She is a professor at the University of Würzburg where she holds the chair in Theoretical Physics III.