What is the Fundamental Microscopic Structure of Space-Time in our Universe?

Astrid Eichhorn

What are the building blocks of our universe that everything is made of? In this video, ASTRID EICHHORN explains how her work seeks to reveal the fundamental microscopic structure of space-time. While recent pioneering experiments have confirmed aspects of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, this work seeks to overcome the limitations of current observational technology through theoretical investigations of the relationships between quantum space-time, quantum gravity and matter. With undoubted implications for our understanding of Dark Matter and the Standard Model of particle physics, the real-world applications of this kind of foundational research can have profound effects on all of our lives.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10642

Researcher

Astrid Eichhorn was appointed associate professor at CP3-Origins at the University of Southern Denmark in 2019. Since 2016, she built up a research group at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Heidelberg University as part of the DFG’s (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Emmy Noether Programme. She is a Visiting Fellow at Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and has held a Junior Research Fellowship at Imperial College London. Her research interests include asymptotically safe quantum gravity and matter and Renormalization Group flows in discrete models of quantum space-time. In April 2018 she was appointed as a new member of the Junge Akademie.

Heidelberg University (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

"Heidelberg University, founded in 1386, is Germany’s oldest university and one of the strongest research universities in all of Europe. The successes in both rounds of the Excellence Initiative and in internationally recognised rankings prove that Heidelberg’s excellent reputation and leading role in the scientific community are well deserved. In terms of educating students and promoting promising early-career academics, Heidelberg relies on research-based teaching and an outstanding, well-structured training for doctoral candidates. Heidelberg University is a comprehensive university, offering the full spectrum of disciplines in the humanities, law and the social sciences alongside the natural and life sciences, including medicine. As a comprehensive university, Heidelberg aims to continue to strengthen the individual disciplines and to further interdisciplinary cooperation, as well as to carry research results over into society and industry. With its aspiration of connecting traditional values with future-oriented scientific concepts in research and teaching, the university is building bridges to the future – Zukunft. Seit 1386." ( Source )