Shamit Kachru

Shamit Kachru
BornJuly 13, 1970 (1970-07-13) (age 54)
Alma materHarvard University
Princeton University
Known forWork on string duality and AdS/CFT correspondence
Inflation (cosmology) and String theory landscape
Physical mathematics
AwardsDepartment of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award,
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship,
David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship,
Bergmann Memorial Award,
Simons Investigator Award,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsStanford University
Doctoral advisorEdward Witten

Shamit Kachru (born 1970) is an American theoretical physicist, a professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University, and a former Wells Family Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. He served as the Stanford Physics Department Chair from 2018 to 2021. He retired in 2023.