Career

• Since 2019: PhD student, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
• 2019: Visitor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Heidelberg University and ICTP Trieste
• 2015-2018: MSc Physics, Heidelberg University
• 2016-2017: MASt Applied Mathematics, Part III, University of Cambridge
• 2012-2015: BSc Physics, Heidelberg University

Research interests

My research interests include in particular string phenomenology, quantum gravity, cosmology and non-perturbative aspects of QFT. Specifically, I work on higher-derivative corrections in string theory and their effects on EFTs from compactifications to lower dimensions. Moreover, I study vacuum transitions in field theories with gravity and their implications on early universe cosmology. In a different context, I apply methods from Machine Learning, Search Optimisation and Topological Data Science to study the landscape of string theory vacua.

Teaching

In Cambridge: 

• Standard Model example classes, Lent term 2021
• Advanced Quantum Field Theory example classes, Lent term 2021
• Drop in session Advanced Quantum Field Theory, Lent term 2021
• Part III Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2020
• Standard Model example classes, Lent term 2020

In Heidelberg: Classical Mechanics, Mathematical Methods, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics

Publications

From SPIRES: http://inspirehep.net/search?p=exactauthor%3AA.Schachner.1&sf=earliestdate

From the arXiv: https://arxiv.org/search/?searchtype=author&query=Schachner%2C+A