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Career

  • From 2026: Stephen W. Hawking Professor of Cosmology, DAMTP
  • From 2025: Co-Director, Max Planck-IAS-NTU Center
  • From 2024: Director, Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics
  • From 2024: Chee-Chun Leung Professor, National Taiwan University
  • 2015-2026: Professor of Theoretical Cosmology, University of Amsterdam
  • 2011-2015: Lecturer (then Reader), DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2009-2011: Long-Term Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • 2008-2009: Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University
  • 2003-2008: Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Princeton University
  • 2002-2003: M.Math. in Mathematics, University of Cambridge
  • 1999-2002: B.A. in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge

Publications

Scale-invariance and the strong coupling problem
D Baumann, L Senatore, M Zaldarriaga
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2011)
2011,
004
Scale-invariance and the strong coupling problem
D Baumann, L Senatore, M Zaldarriaga
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2011)
2011,
Inflating with baryons
D Baumann, D Green
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2011)
2011,
71
Desensitizing inflation from the Planck scale
D Baumann, D Green
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2010)
2010,
57
Effects of compactification in d-brane inflation
D Baumann, A Dymarsky, S Kachru, IR Klebanov, L McAllister
– Physical Review Letters
(2010)
104,
251602
D3-brane potentials from fluxes in AdS/CFT
D Baumann, A Dymarsky, S Kachru, IR Klebanov, L McAllister
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2010)
2010,
72
Desensitizing inflation from the Planck scale
D Baumann, D Green
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2010)
2010,
Compactification Effects in D-brane Inflation
D Baumann, A Dymarsky, S Kachru, IR Klebanov, L McAllister
– Phys.Rev.Lett.
(2009)
104,
251602
Causality and primordial tensor modes
D Baumann, M Zaldarriaga
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2009)
2009,
Advances in inflation in string theory
D Baumann, L McAllister
– Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
(2009)
59,
67
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Research Group

Relativity and Gravitation

Room

B1.08