Chris Hull

Christopher Michael Hull, called Chris Hull, is a British theoretical physicist who deals with string theory, supergravity and related concepts such as M- theory. He is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.

In the 1990s he was at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

His work with Paul Townsend on superstring dualities 1994 ( where they showed the equivalence of previously considered as separate superstring theories in certain special cases ) were one of the triggers of the so-called Second Superstring Revolution.

In the eulogy for inclusion in the Royal Society and his work with Michael R. Douglas in the late 1990s were highlighted on nonkommutative geometry in M-theory, and his research on the UV divergences of supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models as well as his classification of supersymmetric vacuums of 11 dimensional supergravity, where he found a special role of the holonomy group SL (32, R).

Hull is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society (2012 ), the Wolfson Research Merit Award he received in 2002. In 2003 he received the Dirac Medal ( IOP). In 1987 he received an Advanced Research Fellowship of the SERC and 1996, a Senior Research Fellowship by the successor organization.