Nima Arkani-Hamed

Nima Arkani-Hamed
Nima Arkani-Hamed
نیما ارکانی حامد
	Arkani-Hamed in 2004
Born	April 5, 1972; Houston, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Toronto (HBSc) ; University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known for	Large extra dimensions; Dimensional deconstruction; Little Higgs; Split supersymmetry; Weak gravity conjecture; Dark matter; Scattering amplitudes; Amplituhedron; Future Circular Collider;
Awards	Gribov Medal (2003); Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences (2008); Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012); Sakurai Prize (2021);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Institute for Advanced Study; Harvard University; Cornell University;
Thesis	Supersymmetry and hierarchies (1997)
Doctoral advisor	Lawrence John Hall
Doctoral students	Jared Kaplan; Philip Schuster; Leonardo Senatore; Jesse Thaler; Natalia Toro;
Website	www.sns.ias.edu/~arkani/

Nima Arkani-Hamed (Persian: نیما ارکانی حامد; born April 5, 1972) is an Iranian-American-Canadian theoretical physicist, with interests in high-energy physics, quantum field theory, string theory, cosmology and collider physics. Arkani-Hamed is a member of the permanent faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he is also director of the Carl P. Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation. He is also director of The Center for Future High Energy Physics (CFHEP) in Beijing, China.