Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

Peter van Nieuwenhuizen is a Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University, specializing in theoretical physics. His research focuses on quantum field theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and string theory. He co-invented supergravity in 1976, earning the Dirac Medal and Prize in 1993. He actively collaborates with graduate students, organizing weekly seminars to discuss new developments in theoretical physics. He has advised 15 Ph.D. students, nine of whom hold faculty positions, and four are postdoctoral researchers.

Education: Ph.D. in Physics from Utrecht University (1971).

Research interests include Kaluza-Klein reductions of supergravities, path integral measures, instantons, and innovative concepts like Chern-Simons terms in 11-dimensional supergravity and anticommuting coordinates in superspace.

Despite over 280 publications, specific article details are unavailable due to broken links in the provided text.

• Awards: Dirac Medal and Prize (1993)
• Advising: 15 Ph.D. students; 9 in faculty roles
• Professional Activities: Organizes weekly graduate student-led seminars