Mirjam Cvetic

Mirjam Cvetič has been part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania since 1987. She has been the Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Endowed Chair since 2003.

Her research interest lies in a variety of problems of elementary particle physics ranging from the study of basic interactions to experimental tests of fundamental theories. Her background is in basic theory (effective Lagrangian of superstring and M-theory, supergravity, and general relativity) as well as in phenomenology (implications of extended gauge structures and phenomenological implications of string theories), and she tends to pursue research that bridges the gap between basic theory and the experimental consequences of these theories. 

Cvetič is part of the High Energy Theory Group at Penn, which studies the fundamental forces of nature, early universe cosmology and mathematical physics. Its activities span the range of these fields: from model building, formal field theory and string theory, to new paradigms for cosmology and the interface of string theory with mathematics. The Penn theory group is one of the few institutions in the world where extensive development of the formal aspects of string theory has been united with a focus on real phenomena in particle physics, cosmology and gravity. The group is an integral part of the Center for Particle Cosmology.