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Gauge/gravity duality which originates from string theory relates strongly coupled gauge theories to weakly coupled gravity theories. This duality allows for computations of non-perturbative results on the field theory side by perturbative calculations on the gravity side. We use gauge/gravity duality to investigate various phenomena of strongly coupled systems. In particular, we consider applications of the duality to real-world systems such as condensed matter systems and the quark-gluon plasma created by heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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studied physics at University Ulm, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, where he received his diploma in physics in 2008 and his doctoral degree in 2012. From 2007 until 2012 he worked in high energy physics at the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich.

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