About
Michael Duff gained his PhD in theoretical physics in 1972 at Imperial College London under Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam. After postdoctoral fellowships in Trieste, Oxford, King's College London, Queen Mary College London and Brandeis University, he returned to Imperial College in 1979 on a Science Research Council Advanced Fellowship and joined the faculty there in 1980. He took leave of absence to visit the Theory Division in CERN, first in 1982 and then again as a Staff Member from 1984 to 1987 when he became Senior Physicist. He has also held Visiting Professorships and Fellowships at the University of Texas, Austin; the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Kyoto and the Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge.
He took up his professorship at Texas A&M University in 1988 and was appointed Distinguished Professor in 1992.
In 1999 he moved to the University of Michigan, where he was Oskar Klein Professor of Physics. In 2001, he was elected first Director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and was re-elected in 2004.
In 2005 he returned once more to Imperial where he has served as Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Abdus Salam Professor of Theoretical Physics. He is now Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics and Senior Research Investigator at Imperial and Visiting Professor in Mathematics at Oxford. He holds a Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellowship.
Michael's interests lie in unified theories of the elementary particles, quantum gravity, supergravity, Kaluza-Klein theory, superstrings, supermembranes, M-theory and quantum information theory. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Recipient of the 2004 Meeting Gold Medal, El Colegio Nacional, Mexico, the 2017 Paul Dirac Gold Medal and Prize, UK Institute of Physics, the 2018 Trotter Prize and is a 2018-9 Faculty Fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Studies.
He took up his professorship at Texas A&M University in 1988 and was appointed Distinguished Professor in 1992.
In 1999 he moved to the University of Michigan, where he was Oskar Klein Professor of Physics. In 2001, he was elected first Director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and was re-elected in 2004.
In 2005 he returned once more to Imperial where he has served as Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Abdus Salam Professor of Theoretical Physics. He is now Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics and Senior Research Investigator at Imperial and Visiting Professor in Mathematics at Oxford. He holds a Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellowship.
Michael's interests lie in unified theories of the elementary particles, quantum gravity, supergravity, Kaluza-Klein theory, superstrings, supermembranes, M-theory and quantum information theory. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Recipient of the 2004 Meeting Gold Medal, El Colegio Nacional, Mexico, the 2017 Paul Dirac Gold Medal and Prize, UK Institute of Physics, the 2018 Trotter Prize and is a 2018-9 Faculty Fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Studies.
Acknowledgement
I am grateful to Henry Elsom for help setting up this webpage.
I am grateful to Henry Elsom for help setting up this webpage.