Nature in the world-order was fitted together
out of unlimiteds and limiters,
both the whole world-order
and all the things in it.
Philolaus of Croton, On Nature.*
Welcome to my personal website. My name is Wolfgang Martin Wieland. I am a theoretical physicist and currently a researcher at IQOQI Vienna.
My main research interests are in general relativity and quantum gravity. Research achievements and ongoing projects on quasi-local observables, spin structure of quantum spacetime, spinfoams, Jackiw–Teitelboim gravity, topological field theories and the relationship between the loop gravity and twistor approaches to quantum gravity. Under-graduate studies in Austria (Innsbruck and Vienna), PhD from France (Marseille), postdocs in Austria, Canada and the U.S.A. Thesis prize from Aix-Marseille University in 2014. Invited speaker and invited plenary speaker at various international conferences. Bronstein Prize for research in Loop Quantum Gravity in 2019.
If you would like to contact me, please use the following address:
wolfgangmartin [dot] wieland [at] oeaw [dot] ac [dot] at
Basic CV:
- Since 09-2020
- Senior Postdoc at IQOQI
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation (Wien, Österreich)
- 09-2015 to 08-2020
- Postdoc and Senior Postdoc at PI
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo ON, Canada)
- 09-2013 to 08-2015
- Postdoc at IGC
- Pennsylvania State University
- Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos (State College PA, U.S.A.)
- 09-2010 to 08-2013
- PhD at CPT
- Aix-Marseille Université
- Centre de Physique Théorique (Marseille, France)
Prizes and Awards:
- Bronstein Prize 2019
- “For his exceptional creativity and independence, and for deep insights into spinorial and twistorial methods that led to new perspectives for the spinfoam formalism.”
- GERG Editors’ Choice
- The article “Quasi-local gravitational angular momentum and centre of mass from generalised Witten equations” appeared as an Editors' Choice in General Relativity and Gravitation.
- Prix de Thèse 2014
- Thesis prize from Aix-Marseille University.
- CQG Highlights
- The paper “Twistorial phase space for complex Ashtekar variables” was selected by the Editorial Board of Classical and Quantum Gravity as one of the highlights of 2011–2012.
- Pro Scientia Fellowship
- Scholarship from Austrian academic foundation Pro Scientia from March 2009 until February 2012.
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