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Ibrahima (Ibou) Bah

John Hopkins University

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Ibou Bah is an Assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University working on various topics in the intersection of string theory, holography and quantum field theory. He grew up in Senegal and immigrated to US (living in New York City) when he was 13. He completed his undergraduate studies in physics and Mathematics at Lafayette College in PA, and his graduate studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor under the supervision of Leopoldo Pando Zayas in 2012. After that, Bah joined the string theory groups at IPhT at Saclay, outside of Paris in France, and at University of Southern California for a joint postdoc. He started his second postdoc in 2015 with Ken Intriligator at UCSD as a UC president’s postdoctoral fellow. In January 2017 he joined the physics and astronomy Department at Johns Hopkins University as a junior faculty.

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Positions Held

General Member, 2024 – current

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