Auteur: Folkert Kuipers

Dr. Folkert Kuipers is a postdoctoral researcher in quantum gravity at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Naples, Italy. He holds B.Sc. degrees in Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy (Utrecht University, 2015), M.Sc. degrees in Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics (Utrecht University, 2018) and a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (University of Sussex, 2022). His research interests range over many aspects of quantum theories on curved spacetimes and quantum gravity. Within these fields, he has contributed to research on effective field theories of quantum gravity. In addition, he made various important contributions to the study of stochastic mechanics and its extensions to curved spacetimes using second order geometry. For his proposal to apply stochastic differential geometry to the study of quantum gravity, he has been awarded a Humboldt fellowship, which will be carried out at the LMU in Munich.