Andrew Strominger

Andrew Eben Strominger
Strominger in 2004
Born	(1955-07-30) July 30, 1955 Cambridge, England
Education	Harvard College (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known for	dS/CFT correspondence CGHS model Kerr/CFT correspondence SYZ conjecture
Awards	Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Klein Medal Dirac Medal (ICTP) Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Workplaces	Harvard University University of California, Santa Barbara Institute for Advanced Study
Thesis	The large symmetry approximation in quantum field theory (1981)
Doctoral advisor	Roman Jackiw
Doctoral students	Ruth Britto Sabrina Pasterski Anastasia Volovich Xi Yin

Andrew Eben Strominger (/ˈstrɒmɪndʒər/; born July 30, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist who is the director of Harvard's Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature. He specializes in quantum gravity and string theory who is known for early work on celestial holography. He co-formulated the SYZ conjecture and the CGHS model.

Strominger won the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2017. He was elected as a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, to the American Physical Society in 2018, and as a Guggenheim Fellow in 2020.