1. Home
  2. The University
  3. Staff profiles
  4. Staff at the Faculty of Science and Engineering
  5. School of Biosciences, Geography and Physics Staff
  6. Our Physics staff
  7. Dr Amr Ahmadain
Dr Amr Ahmadain

Dr Amr Ahmadain

Research Officer in Quantum Black Holes, Islands and Holography
Physics

Email address

Office - 521
Fifth Floor
Vivian Building
Singleton Campus

About

Before coming to Swansea, Dr. Ahmadain was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) from 2020 to 2023. He obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Virginia in 2020 where he was a student of Prof. Israel Klich working on a variety of problems involving entanglement entropy in lattice spin chains.

He completed his Master of Science degree from the University of Cincinnati in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Philip Argyres working on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories.

Career Highlights

Research

Amr is a string theorist and his current research interests span different areas in string theory and 2d quantum field theory on the string worldsheet. He is particularly interested in studying how to impose target spacetime boundaries at finite distance in the bulk from the string worldsheet. This is important for a worldsheet derivation of the stringy Ryu-Takayanagi formula and replica trick. He is also interested in studying the conceptual foundations of perturbative string theory.