(photo: Marta Mayer, DESY) lab. 2a room 408a , phone: 2083 |
Alexander Westphal
Telephone: +49 40 8998 2083
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Inflation in String Theory / Strings & Cosmology
Extra Dimensions & orbifold GUTs Supersymmetry |
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Group Members:
Associated Members: |
Jonathan Frazer Ander Retolaza Jakob Moritz Mafalda Dias |
(Post-Doc) (Post-Doc) (PhD-Student) (Post-Doc SFB 676 C6) |
email: jonathan.frazer(AT)desy.de email: ander.retolaza(AT)desy.de email: jakob.moritz(AT)desy.de email: mafalda.dias(AT)desy.de |
 Click the image for a short description of our research. Cosmological Inflation in String Theory - The 'String Landscape' The Rolling Ball: Inflation could be the 'breathing' of extra dimensions |
DESY Theory Workshop 2017 
ERC Workshop: New Ideas in String Phenomenology (2017) 
XXVIII Workshop Beyond the Standard Model (2016) |
Youtube: "String Theory Landscape" at the SETI Institute (2012), Mountain View, California 
OmegaTau Podcast on "String Theory" (2015)  Wissen vom Fass (Science on Tap), Hamburg, April 27, 2017 |
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Project C6 "Scalar fields in Cosmology: Inflation, Dark Matter, Dark Energy"
C6 Post-Doc: Mafalda Dias, email: mafalda.dias(AT)desy.de |
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Ido Ben-Dayan (now postdoc at Ben-Gurion U.) Benedict Broy (PhD, now at d-fine) David Ciupke (PhD, now postdoc in Bologna) Koushik Dutta (now faculty at the SAHA Institute) Francisco Pedro (now postdoc at IFT Madrid) Markus Rummel (PhD, now postdoc at Perimeter) Pascal Vaudrevange (now at d-fine) |
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From inSPIRE
From Nature |
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fall term 2010/2011 spring term 2011 fall term 2011/2012 spring term 2012 |
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summer term 2011: Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology SFB lectures: summer term 2011, slides: From Inflation to the Planck Scale winter term 2012: Theoretical Cosmology summer term 2014: Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology SFB lectures: summer term 2015, slides: Status and Perspectives of Early Universe Inflation |
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 Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (2007 - 2010) |
 SISSA/ISAS Theoretical Particle Physics (2005 - 2007) |