Anna Katharina Beisert-Zülch's father was the neuroscientist Klaus-Joachim Zülch [de] (1910–1988).
After receiving his Diplom he was a researcher the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Golm-Potsdam.
His doctoral dissertation The Dilation Operator of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory and Integrability was supervised by Matthias Staudacher.
By applying techniques that have been used for exactly integrable systems in solid-state physics (such as one-dimensional spin chains[4][5] and the Bethe ansatz[6][7][8]), Beisert, Staudacher, and colleagues made progress in gauge/string duality for the case of supersymmetric gauge field theories with maximal symmetry (planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, with symmetry group 𝖕𝖘𝖚(2,2|4)).
This research effort was pioneered by the University of Uppsala's Joseph Minahan and Konstantin Zarembo, who previously found evidence of integrable structures.