Eva Silverstein

Eva Silverstein is a string theorist. She is married to fellow string theorist Shamit Kachru. She and Kachru were both proteges of Edward Witten.

She is best known for her work on tachyon condensation in string theory and resulting resolution of some spacetime singularities (with Adams, Polchinski, and others). Her other significant research contributions include the construction of the first models of dark energy in string theory, some basic extensions of the AdS/CFT correspondence to more realistic field theories (with Kachru), and the discovery of a predictive new mechanism for cosmic inflation involving D-brane dynamics (with Tong and Alishahiha).

Education

• A.B., Physics, Harvard University, 1992
• Ph.D., Physics, Princeton University, 1996

Professional academic history

• Postdoctoral Associate, Rutgers University, 1996-1997
• Assistant Professor, SLAC, Stanford, 1997-2001
• Associate Professor, SLAC and Stanford Physics Department, Stanford, 2001-present

Awards and honors

• MacArthur Fellow, 1999
• Bergmann Memorial Award, 1999
• DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator, 1999 - 2001
• Sloan Fellowship, 1999 - 2003

Research areas

String theory, gravity, and particle physics: including moduli stabilization, supersymmetry breaking, and the microphysics of dark energy in string theory; dynamics of interacting scalar fields in cosmology and particle physics; unification of string vacua, singularity resolution, and dualities.

External links

• Her faculty page at Stanford
• list of her papers