Dr. Jean-Luc Lehners
Leader of the ERC Research Group in "Theoretical Cosmology"
Address:
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
(Albert-Einstein-Institut)
Am Mühlenberg 1
D-14476 Potsdam
GERMANY
Phone: +49 331 567-7316
E-mail: jlehners@aei.mpg.de
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
| Nationality: | Luxembourg |
Current Position
| 2010-now | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Leader of the ERC Research Group in "Theoretical Cosmology" |
Positions Held
| 2010 | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 2007-2010 | Princeton University - Princeton Center for Theoretical Science Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 2005-2007 | University of Cambridge – DAMTP Research Associate |
Education
| 2001-2005 | Imperial College London - PhD Physics Advisor: Professor K.S. Stelle Thesis entitled “Braneworlds from Supergravity” |
| 2000-2001 | University of Cambridge - Part III Mathematics Grade: Distinction |
| 1997-2000 | Imperial College London - BSc Physics with Theoretical Physics Grade: First Class Honours |
| 1990-1997 | Lycée Michel Rodange, Luxembourg Grade: Très bien |
Languages
Fluent in English, French, German, Luxembourgish
Third-Party Funds
2018-2023 | ERC Consolidator Grant |
2010-2015 | ERC Starting Grant Project title: String Cosmology and Observational Signatures (StG 256994) Value: 1.14 million € Project dates: 01.12.2010 – 30.11.2015 |
Awards and Scholarships
| Grant of the Max Planck Society |
2015-2017 | Grant of the Max Planck Society Awarded for an extension of the Theoretical Cosmology group Value: 460,000 € |
| 2010 | Prix Lions Prize awarded yearly by the Lions Club Luxembourg for cultural or scientific merits |
| 2009 | Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition – Honorable Mention Essay The Return of the Phoenix Universe, with P. Steinhardt and N. Turok |
| 2002-2005 | Bourse Formation Recherche Awarded by the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture, Higher Education and Research |
| 2002 | Valerie Myerscough Prize, University of London |
2001-2004 | PPARC Scholarship |
| 2000 | Governor’s BSc Prize in Physics, best final year Physics student, Imperial College |
| 1999 | Staff Prize, best second year Physics student, Imperial College |
| 1999 | Stanley Raimes Memorial Prize Awarded for outstanding performance in Mathematics at Imperial College |
| 1998 | Matthews Memorial Prize, best first year Physics student, Imperial College |
Supervision of Graduate Students
| 2019- | Caroline Jonas |
| 2017-2021 | Alice Di Tucci |
| 2015-2019 | Sebastian Bramberger |
| 2013-2019 | Enno Mallwitz |
| 2013-2015 | Anna Ijjas |
| 2012-2016 | Angelika Fertig |
Supervision of Postdocs
| 2021-2022 | Sergio Hörtner |
| 2020-2021 | Marc Schneider |
| 2019-2021 | Jérôme Quintin |
| 2019 | Ana Alonso Serrano |
| 2018-2020 | Sayantan Choudhury |
| 2015-2019 | Shane Farnsworth |
| 2012-2015 | Rhiannon Gwyn |
| 2012-2014 | Lorenzo Battarra |
| 2011-2014 | Michael Koehn |
Teaching
| 2019 | Quantum cosmology lectures, IMPRS programme, Mallorca, Spain |
| 2016 | Cosmology lecture course, Humboldt Universität, Berlin |
| 2014 | Lecturer, Autumn Blockkurs 2014, Graduiertenkolleg "Masse, Spektrum, Symmetrie", Humboldt Universität, Berlin |
| 2014 | Lecturer at the Advanced String School 2014, organized by the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India |
| 2014 | Lecturer at the University of Sussex School "From Classical to Quantum GR", Brighton, UK |
| 2012 | Lectures on "Cosmology" at the Jürgen Ehlers Spring School for 3rd year undergraduates, Albert Einstein Institute, Germany |
| 2011 | IMPRS Lectures on "Early Universe Cosmology" for graduate students, Albert Einstein Institute, Germany |
| 2009 | Lecturer at the "Summer School on Particle Physics, Cosmology and Strings" at Perimeter Institute, Canada |
| 2004-2005 | Example classes for the Unification course at Imperial College London |
| 2002-2004 | Example classes for the General Relativity course at Imperial College London |
Organization of Scientific Meetings
| 2023 | Probing the Quantum Origin of Spacetime, Royal Society Theo Murphy meeting, Northampton, January 23rd- 24th |
| 2017 | Connections between Cosmology, Strong Gravity and Quantum Theory, Ringberg castle, February 15th- 18th |
| 2016 | Emergent Space-time in Quantum Gravity and Fundamental Cosmology, Albert Einstein Institute (AEI), September 26th – 29th |
| 2014 | DESY Theory Workshop, September 23rd – 26th |
| 2014 | Quantum Gravity and Fundamental Cosmology II, AEI, March 3rd- 6th |
| 2013 | Quantum Gravity and Fundamental Cosmology, AEI, March 5th- 8th |
| 2011 | Challenges for Inflationary Cosmology, Perimeter Institute, July 11th- 15th |
| 2008-2009 | Big Bang and Beyond (year-long program), Princeton Center for Theoretical Science |
Institutional Responsibilities
| 2022- | AEI Colloquium organizer |
| 2019-2022 | Ombudsperson for the Albert Einstein Institute |
| 2015-2019 | AEI Colloquium organizer |
| 2005-2007 | Organizer of the weekly Cambridge Cosmology Lunches |
Commissions of Trust
| 2019 | Swiss National Science Foundation, member of the panel for COST projects |
| 2016 | Member of the Jury at the Falling Walls Lab, Berlin, November 8th |
| 2012-2014 | Member of the works council, Albert Einstein Institute |
| 2011- | Member of the Advisory Board, Max Planck Partner Group on Cosmology and Gravity, Trivandrum, India |
Book
| 2018 | Die Erde ist mein Raumschiff Publisher: da Vinci, Luxembourg ISBN: 978-99959-1-130-0 Popular science book for children, distributed by the Luxembourgish Ministry of Education to all school children in 6th grade (cycle 4.2) in Luxembourg |
Invited Talks (selected)
| 2022 | Heidelberg University, December 13th |
| 2022 | LAPTh Annecy, France (online talk), October 19th |
| 2022 | Razmadze Mathematical Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 15th |
| 2022 | Plenary talk, When hbar meets G, IAP, Paris, June 28th |
| 2022 | McGill University, Canada (online talk), May 2nd |
| 2022 | MPI for the History of Science, Berlin, March 31st |
| 2022 | IITGN and IACS, Kolkata, India (online talk), February 10th |
| 2022 | Bad Honnef Winterseminar, Germany, January 28th |
| 2021 | Recent progress of quantum cosmology, Yukawa Institute, Japan (online talk), November 10th |
| 2021 | Université de Lyon, France (online talk), June 1st |
| 2021 | APC Paris, France (online talk), May 28th |
| 2021 | University of Montreal, Canada (online talk), March 22nd |
| 2021 | GQFI seminar, Albert Einstein Institute, Germany (online talk), February 17th |
| 2020 | Van Swinderen Institute Groningen (online talk), November 12th |
| 2020 | Colloquium Universidad di Santiago, Chile (online talk), November 5th |
| 2020 | Colloquium University of Sheffield, UK (online talk), November 4th |
| 2020 | Utrecht University, The Netherlands (online talk), May 8th |
| 2020 | University of Vienna, Austria (online talk), April 23rd |
| 2020 | Quantum Aspects of Spacetime and Matter (online talk), January 30th |
| 2019 | CP-3 Origins, University of Southern Denmark, September 23rd |
| 2019 | LPTHE, Université Sorbonne - Jussieu, Paris, September 17th |
| 2019 | Autonomous University of Barcelona, April 25th |
| 2019 | EPFL Lausanne, March 11th |
| 2018 | Colloquium, Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, December 13th |
| 2018 | Quantum Universe conference, CECs, Valdivia, Chile, November 13th |
| 2018 | Simons Summer workshop on Forefronts in Cosmology and Numerical General Relativity, Salzburg, July 7th |
| 2018 | Plenary Speaker, 15th Marcel Grossmann meeting, Rome, July 2nd |
| 2018 | University of Luxembourg, June 27th |
| 2018 | Spring Cosmology meeting, DESY Zeuthen, May 18th |
| 2018 | Colloquium, Heidelberg, May 3rd |
| 2018 | Brussels, seminar, April 25th |
| 2018 | University of Amsterdam, seminar, March 5th |
| 2017 | Path Integral for Gravity, Perimeter Institute, November 14th |
| 2017 | Columbia University, seminar, November 13th |
| 2017 | Princeton University, gravity group seminar, November 10th |
| 2017 | DESY Theory workshop, Hamburg, September 28th |
| 2017 | Bouncing scenarios in cosmology, Perimeter Institute, June 28th |
| 2017 | Bangs, Bounces, Black Holes and Bubbles, Princeton University, May 11th |
| 2017 | MIT, joint Tufts/MIT seminar, March 14th |
| 2016 | Keynote talk, Communicability and Cosmology, Humboldt University, July 7th |
| 2016 | Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics, Perimeter Institute, June 15th |
| 2016 | PCTS@10 workshop, Princeton University, May 6th |
| 2015 | Selected Topics in Theoretical High Energy Physics, Tbilisi State University, Georgia, September 23rd |
| 2015 | 1st Erlangen Workshop on Cosmology and Quantum Gravity, February 11th |
| 2014 | The Primordial Universe After Planck, Paris, December 18th |
| 2014 | Keynote talk, Planck 2014 conference, Ferrara, Italy, December 3rd |
| 2014 | Colloquium, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, November 17th |
| 2014 | Searching for Simplicity, Princeton University, May 15th |
| 2014 | The Particle Physics and Cosmology of Supersymmetry and String Theory, New York City, March 20th |
| 2014 | Colloquium, Virginia Tech, February 17th |
| 2014 | Cosmology after Planck, DESY, Hamburg, January 28th |
| 2013 | The Particle Physics and Cosmology of Supersymmetry and String Theory, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, March 21st |
| 2013 | Colloquium, DESY, Hamburg, January 30th |
| 2012 | Colloquium, York University, Toronto, October 10th |
| 2012 | Corfu summer institute, Workshop on String Theory, September 24th |
| 2012 | New Ideas in Cosmology, University of Pennsylvania, March 17th |
| 2011 | Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics, Paris, June 17th |
| 2011 | AAAS meeting, Washington D.C., February 19th |
Popular Science Talks and Outreach Activities (selected)
| 2023 | Bibliothèque Nationale Luxembourg, February 23rd |
| 2022 | Evangelische Grundschule Potsdam, November 22nd |
| 2022 | Podcast Nachgefragt! (children ask questions to scientists) July 15th |
| 2022 | Kulturverein Ellwangen, May 5th |
| 2022 | Rotary Club Potsdam (online talk), January 5th |
| 2021 | „Knowember“ der Wissenschaft, Albert Einstein Institute (online talk), November 1st |
| 2021 | 7 Sachen, Inselbühne Potsdam, August 24th |
| 2021 | Radio interview Corax (youth radio), recorded March 23rd |
| 2021 | Radio interview SWR2, March 21st |
| 2020 | Haus der Astronomie (online talk), October 8th |
| 2020 | Science2Go, Potsdam Science Park (online talk), May 7th |
| 2019 | Keynote Speech, Ph.D. Graduation ceremony, University of Luxembourg, December 13th |
| 2019 | Grundschule im Bornstedter Feld, Potsdam, November 13th |
| 2019 | “LTPS goes space”, Lycée Technique pour Professions de Santé, Luxembourg, June 24th |
| 2019 | Schroeder Award, Schroeder & Associés, Luxembourg, June 21st |
| 2019 | Bruno-H.-Bürgel Sternwarte, Berlin, March 22nd |
| 2018 | Presentation of my children’s book “Die Erde ist mein Raumschiff”, Science Center Differdange, Luxembourg, November 23rd |
| 2018 | ARD alpha Campus Talks, Wissenschaft auf den Punkt gebracht, recorded May 22nd and broadcasted October 23rd |
| 2018 | Inner Wheel Club Potsdam, May 8th |
| 2018 | Athénée, Luxembourg, April 30th |
| 2018 | Olbers-Gesellschaft Bremen, April 17th |
| 2017 | Foundation for Young Scientists Luxembourg, October 5th |
| 2017 | Editorial on the big bang for “Newsweek”, www.newsweek.com, June 19th |
| 2017 | Grundschule im Bornstedter Feld, Potsdam, March 23rd |
| 2016 | Astronomy club Vega, summer camp, St Andreasberg, August 12th |
| 2016 | Montessori Primary School, Potsdam, July 4th |
| 2015 | Lunchpaket, science and dance performance, with choreographer/dancer Dr. Linda Gieres, Bildungsforum Potsdam, November 11th |
| 2015 | Primary school, Koerich, Luxembourg, September 28th |
| 2014 | Aboagora conference “Chaos and Cosmos”, with choreographer/dancer Dr. Linda Gieres, Turku, Finland, August 14th |
| 2014 | Planetarium Nürnberg, May 28th |
| 2013 | MPI for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, July 26th |
| 2012 | 25 Years of Public Research in Luxembourg, Luxembourg, keynote speaker, November 26th |
| 2012 | Luxemburg ist Groß Festival, Berlin, May 11th |
| 2011 | Luxembourgish Amateur Astronomers, 40 Years Celebration, Luxembourg, December 16th |
| 2011 | Falling Walls conference, Berlin, November 9th |
| 2010 | SES, commercial satellite company, Princeton, board meeting, October 1st |
| 2009 | International Year of Astronomy, opening lecture, Luxembourg, March 3rd |