Sakura Schafer-Nameki
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Sakura Schafer-Nameki | |
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 Schafer-Nameki at Oberwolfach in 2026 | |
| Alma mater | University of Stuttgart, University of Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | D-Branes in Boundary Field Theory (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Goddard |
| Website | www |
Sakura Schafer-Nameki is a German mathematical physicist working in string theory and supersymmetric gauge theory. She works at the University of Oxford as a Professor of Mathematical Physics in the Mathematical Institute and as a senior research fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.[1]
Although partly of Japanese descent, Schafer-Nameki is originally from Swabia in Germany.[2] She studied both physics and mathematics at the University of Stuttgart from 1995 to 1998. After coming to the University of Cambridge for the Mathematical Tripos, which she passed with distinction in 1999, she remained at Cambridge for doctoral studies.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in 2003; her dissertation, D-Branes in Boundary Field Theory, was supervised by Peter Goddard.[4]
