University of California, Santa Barbra Katrin Becker (born Gelsenkirchen, Germany, October 7, 1967) is a theoretical physicist and textbook author specializing in string theory.
[1] Becker earned her diploma under Werner Nahm at the University of Bonn where she also received her doctorate in 1994 with a dissertation titled, Strings, black holes and conformal field theory.
[2] She worked closely with her sister, physicist Melanie Becker (also a professor at Texas A&M), with whom she wrote a popular string theory textbook along with John Henry Schwarz.
A general description of Katrin Becker's physics research has been published:In our quest for the fundamental laws of nature, we are led to wonder how to construct a theory of quantum gravity, a theory that reconciles gravity with quantum physics.
Katrin survived her sister and collaborator Melanie who died in 2020 after a long fight with cancer.