About Nima Arkani-Hamed
Nima Arkani-Hamed is an Iranian-American-Canadian theoretical physicist, with interests in high-energy physics, quantum field theory, string theory, cosmology and collider physics. Arkani-Hamed is a member of the permanent faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he is also director of the Carl P. Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation. He is also director of The Center for Future High Energy Physics (CFHEP) in Beijing, China. In 2003, Arkani-Hamed won the Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society, and in the summer of 2005 while at Harvard he won the Phi Beta Kappa chapter's award for teaching excellence. In 2008, he won the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize given at Tel Aviv University to young scientists who have made outstanding and fundamental contributions in Physical Science. In 2021, he was awarded the Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society. Arkani-Hamed graduated from the University of Toronto with a joint honours degree in mathematics and physics in 1993.
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