List of Quantum Gravity Researchers

This is a list of (some of) the researchers in quantum gravity.

• Jan Ambjørn: Expert on dynamical triangulations who helped develop the causal dynamical triangulations approach to quantum gravity.
• Giovanni Amelino-Camelia: Physicist who developed the idea of Doubly special relativity, and founded Quantum-Gravity phenomenology.
• Abhay Ashtekar: Inventor of the Ashtekar variables, one of the founders of loop quantum gravity.
• John Baez: Mathematical physicist who introduced the notion of spin foam in loop quantum gravity (a term originally introduced by Wheeler).
• John W. Barrett: Mathematical physicist who helped develop the Barrett-Crane model of quantum gravity.
• Julian Barbour: Philosopher and author of The End of Time, Absolute or Relative Motion?: The Discovery of Dynamics.
• Martin Bojowald: Physicist who developed the application of loop quantum gravity to cosmology.
• Steve Carlip: Expert on 3-dimensional quantum gravity.
• Louis Crane: Mathematician who helped develop the Barrett-Crane model of quantum gravity.
• Fay Dowker: Physicist working on causal sets as well as the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
• David Finkelstein: Physicist who has contributed much quantum relativity and the logical foundations of QR.
• Charles Francis: Mathematician who has developed a background-independent model of physics called Relational Quantum Gravity.
• Rodolfo Gambini: Physicist who helped introduce loop quantum gravity; coauthor of Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity.
• Gary Gibbons: Physicist who has done important work on black holes.
• Brian Greene: Physicist who is considered one of the world's foremost string theorists.
• James Hartle: Physicist who helped develop the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for the universe.
• Stephen Hawking: Leading physicist, expert on black holes and discoverer of Hawking radiation who helped develop the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for the universe.
• Friedrich W. Hehl: Physicist who developed the metric-affine gauge theory of gravity and published a Physics Reports review article about this subject.
• Christopher Isham: Physicist who focuses on conceptual problems in quantum gravity.
• Mark Israelit Physicist who worked on torsional Weyl-Dirac electrodynamics, quantum gravity and quantum cosmology (cosmic egg model, together with Nathan Rosen).
• Ted Jacobson: Physicist who helped develop loop quantum gravity.
• John Klauder: Physicist. Proponent of the theory called Affine Quantum Gravity.
• Renate Loll: Physicist who worked on loop quantum gravity and more recently helped develop the causal dynamical triangulations approach to quantum gravity.
• Robert B. Mann: Physicist who works on "Lineal" gravity i.e. gravity in lower dimensions and alternate theories within quantum field theory.
• Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara: Physicist who works on loop quantum gravity and spin network models that take causality into account.
• Herman Nicolai: Physicist who works on quantum gravity and investigates Kac-Moody algebras as a candidate symmetry for supergravity theories and M-theory.
• Roger Penrose: Mathematical physicist who invented spin networks and twistor theory.
• Jorge Pullin: Physicist who helped develop loop quantum gravity, coauthor of Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity.
• Carlo Rovelli: One of the founders and major contributors to loop quantum gravity.
• Lee Smolin: One of the founders and major contributors to loop quantum gravity.
• Rafael Sorkin: Physicist, primary proponent of the causal set approach to quantum gravity.
• Andrew Strominger: Physicist who works on string theory.
• Thomas Thiemann: Physicist who works on loop quantum gravity.
• Frank J. Tipler: Mathematical physicist who incorporates quantum gravity into his ideas of a Judeo-Christian God.
• Bill Unruh: Canadian physicist engaged in the study of semiclassical gravity and responsible for the discovery of the so-called Unruh effect.
• Cumrun Vafa: Leading physicist,Developer of F-Theory, Known for Vafa-Witten theorem and Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture.
• Robert Wald: Leading physicist in the field of quantum field theory in curved spacetime.
• Anzhong Wang: Physicist, major contributor to Horava-Lifshitz gravity; String theory and applications to cosmology.
• Peter C. West: Theoretical physicist, major contributions to supergravity and conjectured the E11 Kac-Moody symmetry of M-theory.
• Edward Witten: Leading mathematical physicist, does research in string theory and M-theory.
• Richard Woodard: Physicist, major contributor to canonical, perturbative, and finite infrared quantum gravity; applications to cosmology.
• Paola Zizzi: Physicist who formulated computational loop quantum gravity, also proposed "The Big Wow," which suggests that the universe had a moment of conscious experience at the Big Bang.