Matthias Staudacher (born 13 September 1963) is a German theoretical physicist who has done significant work in the area of quantum field theory and string theory.
[1][2] After postdoctoral work at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Paris and CERN in Geneva, from 1997 he was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam.
In 2009 he received the Academy Award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities[3] and became a mathematical physics professor at Humboldt University of Berlin in 2010.
Some of his publications have been instrumental in developing an understanding of the so-called AdS/CFT correspondence,[4] a duality between the Yang-Mills-type quantum theory and supersymmetric string theory first suggested in the 1990s by Juan Martín Maldacena.
[1] Staudacher suggests that the integrable spin chains of condensed matter physics may form the link between the two approaches.