Jan Christoph Plefka (born 31 January 1968 inHanau) is a Germantheoretical physicist working in the field ofquantum field theory andstring theory.
After receiving theAbitur inDarmstadt and performing civil service in a hospital, Plefka studied physics at theTechnical University of Darmstadt andTexas A&M University where he received his M.Sc. as aFulbright Scholar. He received his PhD from theLeibniz University Hannover with a dissertation onsupersymmetricMatrix Models in 1995. In 2003 he received theHabilitation at theHumboldt University Berlin.
After postdoctoral work at theCity College New York and Nikhef Amsterdam, he became a Junior Staff Member at theAlbert Einstein Institute,Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in 1998.In 2006, Plefka was awarded a Lichtenberg Professorship of theVolkswagen Foundation inquantum field andstring theory at the Institute of Physics atHumboldt University Berlin, becoming Full Professor there in 2011. In 2014 he held a Visiting Professorship at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at theETH Zurich. His research focuses on theoretical high energy and gravitational physics, in particular theAdS/CFT correspondence and hidden symmetries inquantum field theory. His most influential work is the discovery of a hiddenYangian symmetry of scattering amplitudes in N=4supersymmetric gauge theory together with Drummond andHenn[1]. He has co-authored a text book onscattering amplitudes ingauge theories[2] which is the first topical book onmodern on-shell techniques for scattering amplitudes.
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