“Quantum field theory is eighty years old and we still haven’t solved it,” say Dr. Paul-Hermann Balduf, a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University’s Math Institute who will join the Faculty of Mathematics this October. “That’s why collaboration – between different countries, institutions, and fields – is so important.”
Balduf will be spending at least two years doing research at Waterloo thanks to the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, a post-doctoral fellowship awarded by the Humboldt Foundation, which helps Germany researchers do cooperative scientific research abroad. He will be working closely with Dr. Ren Yeats, a professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization who specializes in combinatorial problems in fundamental physics. Together, they are part of a network of more than 30,000 scholars around the world who have been connected by the Foundation.
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