Nima Arkani-Hamed

Nima Arkani-Hamed
نیما ارکانی حامد
Born	(1972-04-05) April 5, 1972 (age 52) Houston, Texas, U.S.[2]
Nationality	American Canadian
Alma mater	University of Toronto University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Large extra dimensions Dimensional deconstruction Little Higgs Split supersymmetry Weak Gravity Conjecture Dark matter Scattering amplitudes Amplituhedron Future Colliders
Awards	Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society (2003) Sackler Prize of Tel Aviv University (2008) Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award (2005) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012) Sakurai Prize (2021)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University Cornell University
Thesis	Supersymmetry and hierarchies [1]  (1997)
Doctoral advisor	Lawrence John Hall
Doctoral students	Leonardo Senatore Philip Schuster Jesse Thaler Natalia Toro
Website	www.sns.ias.edu/~arkani/

Nima Arkani-Hamed (Persian: نیما ارکانی حامد; born April 5, 1972) is an American-Canadian^[3][4] theoretical physicist of Iranian descent, with interests in high-energy physics, quantum field theory, string theory, cosmology and collider physics. Arkani-Hamed is a member of the permanent faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.^[5] He is also director of the Carl P. Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation at the Institute and director of The Center for Future High Energy Physics (CFHEP) in Beijing, China.^[6]