Dr Sakura Schafer-Nameki
Telephone: +44 020 7848 2853
Email: sakura.schafer-nameki@kcl.ac.uk
Office: S4.08a, Strand Building, Strand Campus
Title: Lecturer in Theoretical Physics
Personal Website
Biography
2003 PhD from DAMTP, Cambridge University
2003-2006 Postdoc at Hamburg University/DESY
2006-2009 Prize-postdoctoral fellow at Caltech, Pasadena
2009-2010 Five-year postdoc position at KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara
From 9/2010 Lectureship at King's College, London
Research Interests
Sakura's main research interests are supersymmetric gauge theories.
In particular, she explores supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, which can be motivated from String Theory or within supersymmetric QCD utilizing Seiberg duality. She is working both on the model building aspects of such theories and their phenomenology in view of particle colliders such as the CERN LHC.
Another aspect of her research is to understand conceptually strongly coupled supersymmetric gauge theories using gauge/string duality. Her main focus has been on the AdS/CFT correspondence, which can be understood using methods from integrable systems.
Selection of Publications
All her publications can be found by following this link on the SPIRES database.