Eric D’Hoker (born 18 October 1956 in Belgium) is a Belgian-American theoretical physicist.
D’Hoker studied from 1974 to 1975 at Paris 13 University in Orsay, from 1975 to 1976 at the Lycée Condorcet, and from 1976 to 1978 at the École Polytechnique.
[1] In 1978 he became a graduate student in physics at Princeton University, where in 1981 he received his Ph.D. with future Nobel Laureate David Gross as his advisor.
[2] As a postdoc, D'Hoker worked from 1981 to 1984 at the Center for Theoretical Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1988, D'Hoker became an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).