Curriculum Vitae HAROLD STEINACKER, Ph.D.

september 2012

Personal Data Born on Jan 15, 1968 in Innsbruck, Nationality : Austria Marital Status : married, 1 child Email : [email protected] Webpage : http://homepage.univie.ac.at/harold.steinacker/ phone : 0043 1 4277 51526

Current Position 8/2012 - (ongoing) University of senior lecturer and project leader

Previous Scientific Positions

2/2012-7/2012 City College, City University New York visiting professor 11/2011-2/2012 Vienna University of Technology project leader 4/2005 - 10/20011 Postdoc, project leader 10/2001 – 3/2005 University of Munich (LMU) Assistant Professor (C1), Institute for theoretical physics 25.6.2003 Habilitation (Privatdozent) in theoretical physics, University of Munich 10/2000 – 9/2001 Universit´ede Paris–Sud, Orsay Postdoctoral fellow (DFG) 10/1997 – 9/2000 University of Munich (LMU) Assistant Professor (C1), Institute for theoretical physics 5/1997 – 8/1997 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Research assistant

Education

24.5.1997 Ph.D. in physics, UC Berkeley, USA 6/1996 Participant at TASI 96 (Theoretical Advanced Study Institute), Boulder, USA 9/1992 – 5/1997 University of California at Berkeley, USA Postgraduate study in theoretical physics thesis advisor : Prof. 21.3.1992 Master’s degree in Physics, Universit¨atInnsbruck, Austria 9/1990 – 5/1991 University of Notre Dame, USA Exchange scholarship, research for master’s thesis 10/1986 – 6/1992 Universit¨atInnsbruck, Austria Study of physics and mathematics 5/1986 Graduation, Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck, Austria

Fellowships and other awards

spring 2009 research fellowship, University of Alessandria, Italy (declined) 10/2000 – 9/2001 Postdoctoral fellowship DFG (Deutsche Foschungsgemeinschaft) 1994/1995 The Regents Fellowship of the University of California, Berkeley 9/1990 – 6/1991 Exchange fellowship with University of Notre Dame, USA fall 88 – spring 92 several ”Leistungsstipendien”, Universit¨atInnsbruck 1986 second prize, International Mathematical Olympiad Poland 1985 third prize, International Mathematical Olympiad Finland

Acquisition of external funds may 2012 FWF project Nr. P24713 “Branes, Matrix Models, and Gravity” 335 000 e fall 2011 Wissenschaftlich - technisches Abkommen QEAD mit Kroatien (HR 22/2012) 5 500 e spring 2009 FWF project Nr. P21610 ”Matrix Models, Quantum Spaces, and Gravity” 299 000 e spring 2009 Research fellowship, University of Alessandria, Italy (declined) 2008 Support for workshop in Bayrischzell acquired from ESF network QG2, 8 000 e 2004 Support from DAAD for III Summer School in Mathematical Physics, August 2004, Zlatibor, Serbia 10/2000 – 9/2001 Postdoctoral fellowship DFG (Deutsche Foschungsgemeinschaft) ≈ 26 000 e 2005 Co-author for FWF project Nr. P18657, approx. 210.000 e. Project leader : Harald Grosse. 2003 Co-author of FWF project Nr. P16779, approx. 100.000 e Project leader : Harald Grosse.

Organizational activities – Organizer for satellite workshop on Noncommutative Field Theory and Gravity Corfu, September 7 - 11, 2011 – Organizer for – Bayrischzell workshop on noncommutativity and physics Bayrischzell, may 13 - 17, 2011 () – Bayrischzell workshop on noncommutativity and physics Bayrischzell, may 14-17, 2010 (Germany). – Bayrischzell workshop on noncommutativity and physics Bayrischzell, may 15-18, 2009 (Germany). – Bayrischzell workshop on noncommutativity and physics Bayrischzell, may 16-19, 2008 (Germany). – Bayrischzell workshop on noncommutativity and physics Bayrischzell, may 11-14, 2007 (Germany). – Bayrischzell workshop on noncommutativity and physics Bayrischzell, may 6-9, 2005 (Germany). – Organizer for Satellite workshop on Noncommutative Geometry in Field Theory and String Theory, Corfu Institute on Elementary Particle Physics, September 18-20, 2005 – Director of III Summer School in Modern Mathematical Physics 20-31 August 2004, Zlatibor, Serbia and Montenegro acquisition of financial support from DAAD, project- Nr. A/04/20045 – Organizer for Bayrischzell workshop on noncommutativity and physics Bayrischzell, 4.-7. June 2004 (Germany). Member of OEPG

Publication summary 51 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals 21 publications in peer-reviewed conference proceedings > 1270 citations identified on SPIRES, h (Hirsch) index 21 see list of publication

Invited lectures at postgraduate schools – Core lecturer ”Non-commutative geometry and matrix models“ (8 hours) 3rd Quantum Geometry and Quantum Gravity School, Zakopane, Poland february 28 - march 13, 2011 – Lecturer for “Lie algebras and applications” (10 hours), Summer School for Graduate Stu- dents ”Grundlagen und neue Methoden der theoretischen Physik”, Wolfersdorf, Germany, september 1-12, 2008

Selected invited talks at international conferences november 2012 Workshop “perspectives of fundamental cosmology” (main lecturer, 2 hours) february 2012 Conference “Planckland”, Sissa, Trieste Feb 11-17,2012 july 2011 Conference “Supersymmetries & Quantum Symmetries - SQS’2011”, Dubna, July 18 - 23, 2011 june 2011 Conference “Quantum Theory and Gravitation”, ETH Z¨urich, June 14 - 20, 2011 march 2011 Colloquium at Dutch National Seminar NIKHEF, Amsterdam March 25, 2011 september 2010 Workshop on Quantum Gravity and Quantum Geometry, Corfu, September 8-12, 2010 september 2010 Conference “Geometry and Physics VIII”, Scalea, Italy september 13-17 september 2010 Workshop “Deformation Methods in Mathematics and Physics”, Oberwolfach, september 26 - october 1, 2010 november 2009 workshop on noncommutativity and matrix models, DIAS Dublin, nov. 23-27 october 2009 workshop on ”Holographic Cosmology”, McGill University, Canada October 2-4, 2009 september 2009 2nd School and Workshop on Quantum Gravity and Quantum Geometry, Corfu, September 13-20, 2009 july 2009 PASCOS 2009, DESY , july 6-10, 2009 (contributed talk) dec 2008 Workshop in Memoriam Julius Wess, Erwin-Schr¨odingerInstitut Wien, Dec. 4-6, 2008 oct 2008 Conference “Quantum Spacetime and Noncommutative Geometry”, Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Rome ”La Sapienza” sept 2008 Workshop on quantum gravity and nocommutative geometry, Lisbon, Sept. 22-24 aug 2008 Conference “Emergent Gravity”, MIT, Boston, aug. 25-29, 2008 july 2008 Conference “QG2 2008 Quantum Geometry and Quantum Gravity Conference”, (formerly known as “Loops xx”), Nottingham, june 30-july 4, 2008 (invited plenary talk) sept 2007 “BW2007” III Southeastern European Workshop Challenges Beyond the Standard Model, Kladovo, Serbia, Sept 2-6 2007 june 2007 DIAS Dublin workshop on Fuzzy Physics and Noncommutative Geometry april 2007 Conference “Non Commutative Geometry and Physics”, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Orsay, April 23- 27 sept 2006 Workshop ”Noncommutative Geometry and Physics : Fundamental Structure of Space and Time” Isaac-Newton-Institute, Cambridge, Sept. 3-8, 2006 september 2005 workshop ”Noncommutative Geometry in Field and String Theories”, Corfu Summer Institute on Elementary Particle Physics 2005 may 2005 invited lecture at II. Southeastern European Workshop BW 2005, Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia august 2004 2 invited lectures at III Summer School in Modern Mathematical Physics, 20-31 August 2004, Zlatibor, Serbia and Montenegro july 2004 Workshop on Quantum Gravity and Noncommutative Geometry, Lisbon february 2004 International Workshop on Noncommutative Geometry and Physics, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan august 2003 BW2003 workshop on “Mathematical, Theoretical and Phenomenological Challenges Beyond Standard Model”, Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia september 2002 workshop “Noncommutative geometry and quantum field theory”, Erwin Schr¨odingerInstitute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna sept 2001 Workshop on NonCommutative Geometry, Strings and Renormalization Leipzig, Germany march 2001 Workshop on , Noncommutative Geometry and Quantum Probability, Trieste, Italy oct 2000 “Brane new world and noncommutative geometry”, Torino, Italy july 2000 International Colloquium on Group–theoretical Methods in Physics Dubna, Russia dec 99 International Erwin Schr¨odingerInstitute for Mathematical Physics Vienna, Austria sept 99 Non-commutative Geometry and Hopf Algebras in Field Theory and Particle Physics, Torino, Italy

... as well as numerous other talks at international conferences and workshops

Habilitation Colloquia, University of Munich

23. 1. 2002 “Field theoretical models on covariant quantum spaces” 18. 06. 2003 “Nematic Liquid Crystals”

Other scientific visits and invited seminar talks

– seminar talk, City College, CUNY february 2012 – talk & interview for W3 professor position, Universt¨atW¨urzburg,Germany (december 2, 2011) – University of Durham, UK (seminar, october 30, 2011) – Vienna University of Technology, Austria (talk, june 18, 2011) – talk & interview for W3 professor position in high energy theory, Universit¨atLeipzig, Germany ranked 2nd (may 2011) – Kyoto University, Japan march (seminar, march 2011) – KEK, Tsukuba, Japan (seminar, february 2011) – University of California, Berkeley (seminar, february 2011) – University of California, Los Angeles (seminar, february 2011) – Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb (3 lectures, november 2010) – Max-Planck institute for gravitational physics, Potsdam, Germany (seminar talk, june 2010) – Department of Physics, Universit¨atErlangen, Germany (seminar & interview for professor position, october 2010) – Department of Mathematics, Universit¨atW¨urzburg,Germany (Colloquium & interview for W3 professor position) – Laboratoire de Mathematiques et applications, Universite de Metz, France (seminar, april 2010) – IAS Princeton (informal seminar, invited by N. Arkani-Hamed) october 2009 – Colloquium & interview for full professor position, department of Physics, University of Bielefeld (july 2009) – Department of Physics, LMU M¨unchen, cosmology group (seminar, may 2009) – CERN, theory group, seminar talk “Matrix models, emergent gravity and gauge theory” (April 2009) – Interview for full professor position at the CPT Marseille (3rd in list), Luminy, France (may 2009) – Colloquium & interview for professor position (ranked 2nd), Department of Physics, Uni- versity of Alabama, USA (march 2009) – Department of Physics, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany (january 2009, seminar talk) – Max-Planck Insitute for gravitational physics, Potsdam, Germany (january 2009, seminar talk) – Interview for professor position at the Laboratoire de Math´ematiqueset Applications, Metz, France (may 2008) – Department of Physics, LMU M¨unchen (april 2008, seminar talk) – Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada (january 2008, seminar talk) – Department of Physics, University of Florence, Italy (september 2007, seminar talk) – II. Institute for Theoretical Physics, DESY, Hamburg (seminar talk, june 2007) – Interview for full professor position at the Laboratoire de Mathematique et Physique Th´eorique,Tours, France (may 2007) – Interview for full professor position at the Fakult¨atf¨urMathematik, Universit¨atKarlsruhe (february 2007) – Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (seminar talk, january 2007) – Laboratoire de Mathematique et Physique Th´eorique,Universit´ede Tours (seminar talk, december 2006) – Department of Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK (Sept. 2006, col- laboration with R. Szabo) – Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Durham, UK (seminar talk, Sept. 2006) – Interview for full professor position in theoretical physics (among final 3 candidates) at Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon (May 2006) – Centre de Physique Th´eorique,Luminy, Frankreich (seminar talk, march 2006) – Service de Physique Th´eorique, CEA Saclay, Frankreich (seminar talk, march 2006) – Laboratoire de Mathematique et Physique Th´eorique,Universit´ede Tours (seminar talk, march 2006) – Universit¨atInnsbruck (Lecture, invited by the Mathematisch-Physikalischen Gesellschaft, march 2006) – Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy (seminar talk and collaboration, march 2006) – National Technical University Athens (seminar talk and collaboration, janaury 2006) – Max-Planck-Institut f¨urPhysik, Munich (scientific collaboration, august 2005) – Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (seminar talk, march 2005) – Humboldt-University Berlin (seminar talk, february 2005) – University of Naples (seminar talk, april 2004) – Max-Planck Institute for gravitational physics Potsdam (seminar talk, march 2004) – Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (seminar talk, october 2003) – University of Warsaw (seminar talk and collaboration, december 2002) – Caltech (seminar talk, september 2002) – UC Berkeley (seminar talk, september 2002) – University of Durham (seminar talk and collaboration, april 2002) – ESI Vienna (numerous visits, collaboration and talks) – Universit´ede Paris-Sud, Orsay (several scientific visits and collaboration, 1999, etc.) – Universit¨atM¨unchen (seminar talk, 1997) – Universit¨atInnsbruck (seminar talks 1996, 1998)

Teaching experience

fall 2012 Lecture and exercises ‘Lie-Gruppen und Lie-Algebren f¨urPhysiker‘”(28 hours) Univ. Vienna fall 2011 Lecture “Nichtkommutative Geometrie und Matrix Modelle” (25 hours) Univ. Vienna[1ex] spring 2011 Lecture “Noncommutative Geometry and Matrix Models” (25 hours, block) Univ. Munich spring 2010 Lecture ‘Lie-Gruppen und Lie-Algebren f¨urPhysiker‘”(28 hours) Univ. Vienna fall 2009 Lecture “Random Matrix Theory and Matrix Models” (25 hours, block) Univ. Munich spring 2008 Lecture “Lie-groups and Lie-algebras for physicists”, (28 hours) Univ. Vienna fall 2006/07 Lecture “Lie-groups and Lie-algebras for physicists”, (25 hours) Univ. Munich fall 2004 Lecture “Physik im Querschnitt”, (52 hours) with exercises, Univ. Munich spring 2004 Instructor for Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Univ. Munich fall 2003 Lecture “Lie-groups and Lie-algebras for physicists” (52 hours) with exercises, Univ. Munich spring 2003 Instructor for “Gauge Field Theories”, Univ. Munich fall 2002 Supplementary lecture and Instructor for “Introduction to Quantum Field Theory”,Univ. Munich spring 2002 Instructor for Theoretical Mechanics, LMU fall 2001 Instructor for Quantum Mechanics I, Univ. Munich spring 2000 Instructor for Electrodynamis, Univ. Munich fall 99 Instructor for Quantum Mechanics I, Univ. Munich spring 99 Instructor for Analysis II for Physicists, Univ. Munich fall 98 Instructor for Theoretical Mechanics I, Univ. Munich spring 98 Lecture : “Mathematical Complements to PII” (24 hours), Univ. Munich fall 97 Instructor for Quantum Mechanics II, Univ. Munich fall 96 – spring 97 Graduate Student Instructor (GSI), Introductory Physics ; UC Berkeley fall 93 GSI, Quantum Mechanics ; UC Berkeley fall 92 – spring 93 Graduate Student Instructor (GSI), Introductory Physics, UC Berkeley

Numerous seminars addressed to students given at the University of Munich (LMU), the University of Vienna, and the Technical University of Vienna Student (co-)supervision Nikolaj Kuntner (Diploma work, Univ. Vienna), Paul Schreivogl (Doctoral work, Univ. Vienna) Daniela Klammer (Doctoral work, Univ. Vienna), Armin Much (Diploma work, Univ. Vienna), Frank Meyer (Diploma and Doctoral work, LMU Munich), Wolfgang Behr (Doctoral work, LMU Munich), Andrea Pollock-Narayanan (Diploma work, LMU Munich), Member of the doctoral thesis commission for Marco Maceda (Universit´ede Paris-Sud, Orsay, 2004)