Nature in the world-order was fitted together
out of unlimiteds and limiters,
both the whole world-order
and all the things in it.
Philolaus of Croton, On Nature
Welcome to my personal website. My name is Wolfgang Martin Wieland. I am a theoretical physicist and researcher at IQG Erlangen Nuremberg.
My main research interests are in general relativity and quantum gravity. Research programme on quasi-local observables, quantum geometry of the null cone, quasi-local quantisation of the gravitational field, spin structure of quantum spacetime, spinfoams, quantum reference frames, topological field theories and the relationship between the loop gravity and twistor approaches to quantum gravity. Under-graduate studies in Austria (Innsbruck and Vienna), PhD from France (Marseille), postdocs in Europe, Canada and the U.S.A. Thesis prize from Aix-Marseille University in 2014. Invited speaker and invited plenary speaker at various international conferences. Bronstein Prize for research in Loop Quantum Gravity in 2019. Heisenberg Fellow (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) since 2024.
If you would like to contact me, please use the following address:
wolfgang [dot] wieland [at] fau [dot] de
Academic Positions:
- starting 09-2024
- Heisenberg Fellow (DFG, German Research Foundation) at IQG
- Institute for Quantum Gravity
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Erlangen, Germany)
- 04-2024 to 08-2024
- Postdoc at IQG
- Institute for Quantum Gravity
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Erlangen, Germany)
- 10-2023 to 03-2024
- Visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessur*) at IQG
- Institute for Quantum Gravity
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Erlangen, Germany)
- 01-2023 to 09-2023
- Postdoc at IQG
- Institute for Quantum Gravity
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Erlangen, Germany)
- 09-2020 to 12-2022
- Postdoc at IQOQI
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation (Vienna, Austria)
- 09-2015 to 08-2020
- Postdoc at PI
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo ON, Canada)
- 09-2013 to 08-2015
- Postdoc at IGC
- Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos
- Pennsylvania State University (State College PA, U.S.A.)
- 09-2010 to 08-2013
- PhD Student (contrat doctoral) at CPT
- thesis available at hal.science
- Centre de Physique Théorique
- Aix-Marseille Université (Marseille, France)
Fellowships and Awards:
- DFG Heisenberg Fellow
- Admission into the DFG Heisenberg programme (June 2024).
- Bronstein Prize 2019
- “For his exceptional creativity and independence, and for deep insights into spinorial and twistorial methods that led to new perspectives for the spinfoam formalism.”
- GERG Editors’ Choice
- The article “Quasi-local gravitational angular momentum and centre of mass from generalised Witten equations” appeared as an Editors' Choice in General Relativity and Gravitation.
- Prix de Thèse 2014
- Thesis prize from Aix-Marseille University.
- CQG Highlights
- The paper “Twistorial phase space for complex Ashtekar variables” was selected by the Editorial Board of Classical and Quantum Gravity as one of the highlights of 2011–2012.
- Pro Scientia Fellowship
- Scholarship from Austrian academic foundation Pro Scientia from March 2009 until February 2012.
Other background:
- 2003 to 2009
- Diploma studies of physics
- University of Innsbruck, University of Vienna, Vienna University of Technology
- 2002 to 2003
- Austrian Army (StbB6, 8 months)
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