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University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

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     * [5]Lorentz symmetry
     * [6]Ralf Lehnert

     * [7]Topology in Quantum Field Theory
     * [8]Don Witt

Curator and author

     * [9]Ostrogradsky's theorem on Hamiltonian instability
     * (2015) Richard P Woodard

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     * [10]Quantum gravity as a low energy effective field theory
     * (2017) [11]John F Donoghue

     * [12]Unruh effect
     * (2014) [13]Stephen A. Fulling, [14]George E. A. Matsas

     * [15]Heat kernel expansion in the background field formalism
     * (2015) [16]Andrei O. Barvinsky

Editor of the quantum gravity section of the [17]Encyclopedia of Space-time and
gravitation

CV

Education

     * PhD: Harvard (1984) Invariant Formulation of and Radiative Corrections in
       Quantum Gravity Advisers: Sidney Coleman and Stanley Deser
     * AM: Harvard (1979)
     * BS: CWRU (1977)

Awards

     * Highest Honors (CWRU)
     * Philip E. Bliss Prize
     * Lubrizol Prize in Physics
     * NSF graduate Fellowship
     * 1993 Physics Teacher-of-the-Year
     * Outstanding Referee of APS
     * 2011 College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Teacher-of-the-Year
     * Fellow of the American Physical Society

Current position

   Professor of Physics, University of Florida (since 2003)

Noticeable previous positions and professional experiences

     * Postdoc: UT Austin 1983-85
     * Postdoc: UCSB 1985-7
     * Research Assistant Professor: Brown 1987-9
     * Assistant Professor: UF 1989-94
     * Associate Professor: UF 1994-2003

Research

Research interests

     * Quantum gravity
     * Quantum field theory in curved spacetime
     * Inflationary cosmology
     * Modified gravity

Selected publications

     * A Gravitational Mechanism for Cosmological Screening (with Nick Tsamis) Int.
       Journal of Modern Physics D20 (2011) 2847, arXiv:1103.5134.
     * How Far Are We from the Quantum Theory of Gravity? Reports on Progress in
       Physics 72 (2009) 126002, arXiv:0907.4238.
     * Avoiding Dark Energy with 1/R Modifications of Gravity Lecture Notes in
       Physics 720 (2007) 403, astro-ph/0601672.
     * Nonlocal Cosmology (with Stanley Deser) Physical Review Letters 99 (2007)
       111301, arXiv:0706.2151.
     * Stochastic Quantum Gravitational Inflation (with Nick Tsamis) Nuclear Physics
       B724 (2005) 295, gr-qc/0505115.
     * The Fermion Self-Energy during Inflation (with Shun-Pei Miao) Classical &
       Quantum Gravity 23 (2006) 1721, gr-qc/0511140.
     * Vacuum Polarization and photon mass generation in inflation (with Tomislav
       Prokopec) American Journal of Physics 72 (2004) 60, astro-ph/0303358.
     * Quantum Gravity Slows Inflation (with Nick Tsamis) Nuclear Physics B474
       (1996) 235, hep-ph/9602315.
     * The Structure of Perturbative Quantum Gravity On A de Sitter Background (with
       Nick Tsamis) Communications in Mathematical Physics 162 (1994) 217.
     * Physical Green's Functions in Quantum Gravity (with Nick Tsamis) Annals of
       Physics 215 (1992) 96.
     * Nonlocal Yang-Mills (with Gary Kleppe) Nuclear Physics B388 (1992) 81.
     * The Problem Of Nonlocality In String Theory (with David Eliezer) Nuclear
       Physics B325 (1989) 389.

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