Eric D’Hoker

D’Hoker graduated from École Polytechnique in Paris in 1978, obtained his PhD in physics at Princeton University in 1981 under the supervision of David Gross and was a postdoc at MIT from 1981 to 1984. After assistant professorships at Columbia University and Princeton University, he was appointed as an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988, became a full professor in 1990 and a distinguished professor in 2009.

D’Hoker served as President of the Aspen Center for Physics from 1998 to 2001, was elected fellow of the American Physical in 2005, and was awarded a Simons Fellow in 2017. Further bibliographical information regarding visiting positions, publications, seminars and so on may be found on his website https://www.pa.ucla.edu/faculty-websites/dhoker.html.

D’Hoker’s research interests are in theoretical and mathematical physics, primarily focused on quantum field theory and string theory, with applications to particle physics, condensed matter physics and mathematics. During the covid pandemic he and Justin Kaidi wrote the book entitled “Modular Forms and String Theory” (to be) published by Cambridge University Press in Winter 2025.

In 1996, D’Hoker married Jody Enders, a scholar of medieval French literature and theater, on the top of Aspen Mountain.