Sašo Grozdanov
Bio:
Sašo Grozdanov is an Associate Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, and at the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, his master’s degree from the University of Cambridge, and his PhD from the University of Oxford. Following his studies, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His broad research interest lies in uncovering the laws governing physics through theoretical and mathematical methods that span low-energy to high-energy regimes: from hydrodynamics to quantum field theory, gravity, black holes, and string theory.
Research projects:
His work focuses heavily on studying the dynamics of hot collective states that behave like fluids and plasmas. An example of such a state is the quark-gluon plasma, which filled the early universe and can now be recreated in particle accelerators.