Contact

m.alim@hw.ac.uk
murad.alim@uni-hamburg.de

About me

I am a mathematical physicist and geometer working on the geometry of quantum field- and string theories.
I am an associate professor for mathematical physics at the Mathematics department of Heriot-Watt University as well as at the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh. I maintain a close connection to the mathematics department of the University of Hamburg where I was an Emmy Noether research group leader and an interim professor.

If you are interested in joining my group please drop me an email.

Research interests

My research goal is to uncover new physical and mathematical structures and ideas from the study of the geometry associated with field and string theories. In particular, I am interested in the moduli spaces associated with the variation of these structures, the attached wall crossing phenomena as well as physical and geometrical dualities and symmetries. These phenomena are studied using tools from mirror symmetry.

03/2024-Now Associate Professor for Mathematical Physics at the Department of Mathematics of Heriot Watt University and at the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Edinbrugh. Member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Physics Group

04/2012-09/2023 Substitute Full Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Hamburg

09/2016-Now Emmy Noether Research Group Leader at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Hamburg

04/2016-09/2016 Interim full professor at the Mathematical Institute of the Georg-August University of Göttingen

9/2015-03/2016 Research Associate at the Mathematical Institute of the Georg-August University of Göttingen

09/2012-08/2015 Research Associate and Lecturer at the Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. With Prof. Dr. Shing-Tung Yau.

09/2010-08/2012 Postdoc at the High Energy Theory Group, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. With Prof. Dr. Cumrun Vafa.

09/2009-08/2010 Postdoc at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany. With Prof. Dr. Albrecht Klemm.

11/2006-07/2009 PhD in physics at ASC, LMU, Munich. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Mayr.

10/2002-05/2006 Studies of physics and mathematics at the LMU, Munich, Germany. Prediploma in mathematics, Diploma in physics. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Dieter Lüst.

09/2003-06/2004 DEA (Master) of theoretical physics at the ENS, Paris, France.

10/2000-09/2002 Studies of physics. Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany. Pre-diploma.

09/1998-07/1999 Preparatory year of engineering. University of Alexandria, Egypt.

08/1998 Secondary school certificate. Collège Saint-Marc, Alexandria, Egypt.