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Silviu Pufu is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 2011, having previously earned an A.B. in Physics from the same institution in 2007. Following his doctoral studies, he was a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2011 to 2013. His research interests encompass a wide range of topics including quantum field theory, string theory, gravity, conformal field theory, gauge/gravity duality, string scattering amplitudes, confining gauge theories, and lattice gauge theory. He has been recognized for his contributions to the field, receiving the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2017 and serving as the principal investigator for the Simons Collaboration on Nonperturbative Bootstrap from 2016 to 2023.
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