Cumrun Vafa

Cumrun Vafa (Persian کامران وفا [ kɔ ː ː n mrɔ væfɔ ː ]; born August 1, 1960 in Tehran ) is an Iranian theoretical physicist and one of the leading string theorists.

Cumrun Vafa attended Alborz High School in Tehran, before he went to study in the U.S. in 1977. He made 1981 his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics at MIT in Boston. He then went to Princeton University, where he graduated in 1985 his doctoral thesis. Since 1988 he is Associate Professor and since 1990 professor at Harvard University, where he started after graduating in 1985 as a " Harvard Junior Fellow ." Since 2003 he has been Professor of Science at Harvard thunder.

His most important works include contributions to F- theory, topological string theory and (along with Andrew Strominger ) for the microscopic description of the entropy of black holes.

In 1998 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin (Geometric Physics ). Since 2005 he is member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009 and of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2008 he received the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ), in 2014 the Physics Frontiers Prize.