Biography:Mark Van Raamsdonk

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Mark Van Raamsdonk
Alma materPrinceton University
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Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
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ThesisMaking the most of zero branes and a weak background[1] (2000)
Doctoral advisorWashington Taylor

Mark Van Raamsdonk is a professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia since 2002.[2] Before that, he was a postdoc at Stanford University from 2000 until 2002 and studied as a graduate student at Princeton University from 1995 until 2000 when he received his PhD under the supervision of Washington Taylor. Before that, he did a combined mathematics/physics undergraduate degree at University of British Columbia where he graduated with what is believed to be the highest GPA in the university's prior history.[3]

In 2009 Mark Van Raamsdonk started to work on the relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity during his first sabbatical year.[4] He published his results "Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement" as an essay in 2010,[5] which won the first prize of the annual essay contest run by the Gravity Research Foundation.[6] Van Raamsdonk is a member of the "It from Qubit" collaboration, which was formed in 2015.[7]

Mark Van Raamsdonk plays the saxophone and has organized a concert series at UBC, inspired by a similar one that existed during his time at Princeton.[8][9]

In 2021, Van Raamsdonk published a short picture book titled "The Hot and Cold Adventures of Mr. Brick".[10]

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