SO(IFT) Distinguished Prof. Renata Kallosh

Prof. Kallosh is a world-leader in the study of Supergravity theories. She has made crucial contributions both at a fundamental level, including her works on quantum supergravity, and at the applications to Cosmology, black-hole physics and to the low-energy description of string theory vacua. She has received several awards for her pioneering contributions such as the Humboldt International Research Award (2005-2008) and the Lise Meitner prize of Göteborg University and Chalmers (2009) "for pioneering contributions to theoretical physics and cosmology which led to the construction of models of accelerated expansion of the universe in string theory".