Education

Ph.D., Physics U.C. Berkeley 1997

B.Sc., Mathematics and Physics University of Toronto 1993

Academic Positions

Professor, School of Natural Sciences Institute for Advanced Study 2008-

Professor of Physics Harvard University 2002 -2007

Visiting Professor of Physics  Harvard University 2001 - 2002

Associate Professor of Physics  U.C. Berkeley  2001

Assistant Professor of Physics U.C. Berkeley  1999 - 2001

Postdoctoral Fellow SLAC                                      1997 - 1999

Graduate Student Researcher U.C. Berkeley 1995 - 1997

Graduate Student Instructor U.C. Berkeley  1993 - 1995

Awards and Honors

Fundamental Physics Prize The Milner Foundation 2012

Leigh Page Prize Lectures Yale University 2012

Salam Lectures ICTP Trieste, Italy 2012

BSA Distinguished Lecture  Brookhaven National Lab 2011

Messenger Lectures Cornell University 2010

Sackler Prize Tel Aviv University 2008

Iron’s Lecture Rutgers University 2008

Phi Beta Kappa teaching award Harvard University 2005

Gribov Medal  European Physical Society 2003

Packard Fellowship U.C. Berkeley 2000 - 2005

Sloan Fellowship U.C. Berkeley 2000 - 2002

INFN-Pisa Gamberini Prize  U.C. Berkeley 1997

NSERC 1967 Fellowship U.C. Berkeley 1993 - 1997

National Scholarship University of Toronto 1989 - 1993

Graduate Students Supervised (2003-2011)

Current Position                     Graduated

Jacob Bourjaily Harvard Society of Fellows 2011

Josh Ruderman Miller fellow at Berkeley 2011

Clifford Cheung Junior faculty at Caltech 2009

Matt Baumgart Post-doc at Johns Hopkins Univ.              2009

Jared Kaplan Post-Doc at SLAC 2009

Philip Schuster Junior faculty at Perimeter Inst. 2007

Natalia Toro   Junior faculty at Perimeter Inst. 2007

Can Kilic   Junior faculty at UT-Austin 2006

Rakhi Mahbubani  Post-doc at CERN 2006

Leonardo Senatore Junior faculty at Stanford 2006

Jesse Thaler Junior faculty at MIT 2006

Devin Walker  Post-doc at Harvard/Berkeley 20062

Current Position Graduated

Itay Yavin Junior faculty at Perimeter Inst./McMaster 2006

Thomas Gregoire Junior faculty at Carleton Univ. 2003

Jay Wacker Junior faculty at SLAC 2003

Publications

1. Nima Arkani-Hamed, K. Blum, R.T. D'Agnolo and J.J. Fan, “2:1 for Naturalness at the LHC? ”, 

(2012), hep-ph/1207-4482.

2. Nima Arkani-Hamed, et al, “Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier”, (2012),                       

hep-ex/1205.2671.

3. Nima Arkani-Hamed, et al, “Simplified Models for LHC New Physics Searches”, (2011),              

hep-ph/1105.2838. 

4. Nima Arkani-Hamed, J. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo, A. Hodges and J. Trnka, “A Note on Polytopes for 

Scattering Amplitudes”, (2010), hep-th/1012.6030.

5. Nima Arkani-Hamed, J. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo and J. Trnka, “Local Integrals for Planar Scattering 

Amplitudes”, (2010), hep-th/1012.6032.

6. Nima Arkani-Hamed, J. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo, S. Caron-Huot and J. Trnka, “The All-Loop Integrand 

for Scattering Amplitudes in Planar N = 4 SYM”, JHEP 1101; 041 (2011) hep-th/1008.2958.

7. Nima Arkani-Hamed, F. Cachazo, and C. Cheung, “The Grassmannian Origin Of Dual 

Superconformal Invariance”, JHEP 1003;036 (2010), hep-th/0909.0483.

8. Nima Arkani-Hamed, F. Cachazo, C. Cheung and J. Kaplan, “A Duality for the S Matrix”, JHEP

1003;020 (2010), hep-th/0907.5418.

9. Nima Arkani-Hamed, J. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo and J. Trnka, “Local Spacetime Physics from the 

Grassmannian”, (2009), hep-th/0912.3249.

10. Nima Arkani-Hamed, J. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo and J. Trnka, “Unification of Residues and 

Grassmannian Dualities”, (2009), hep-th/0912.4912.

11. Nima Arkani-Hamed, F. Cachazo, C. Cheung and J. Kaplan, “The S-Matrix in Twistor Space”, JHEP

1003;110 (2010). hep-th/0903.2110.

12. Nima Arkani-Hamed, D.P. Finkbeiner, T. Slatyer and N..Weiner, “A Theory of Dark Matter” 

Phys.Rev.D79:015014, (2009). hep-ph/0810.0713

13. Nima Arkani-Hamed and N. Weiner, “LHC Signals for a SuperUnified Theory of Dark Matter” 

JHEP 0812;104 (2008), doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/104. 

14. Nima Arkani-Hamed, F. Cachazo and J. Kaplan, “What is the Simplest Quantum Field Theory?” 

JHEP 1009;016, (2010). hep-th/0808.1446.

15. Nima Arkani-Hamed and J. Kaplan, “On Tree Amplitudes in Gauge Theory and Gravity” JHEP 

0801;076, (2008), doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/076. hep-th/0801.2385.3

16. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dubovsky, L. Senatore, and G. Villadoro, “(No) Eternal Inflation and 

Precision Higgs Physics,” JHEP 03;075 (2008), doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/03/075.                  

hep-th/0801.2399.

17. Nima Arkani-Hamed, J. Orgera and J. Polchinski, “Euclidean Wormholes in String Theory,” JHEP

0712;018 (2007) hep-th/0705.2768. 

18. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dubovsky, A. Nicolis, E. Trincherini and G.Villadoro, “A Measure of 

deSitter entropy and eternal inflation”, JHEP 0705;055, (2007) hep-ph/0704:1814.

19. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dubovsky, A. Nicolis and G. Villadoro, “Quantum Horizons of the Standard 

Model Landscape,” JHEP 0706; 078, (2007) hep-th/0703067.

20. Nima Arkani-Hamed, B. Knuteson, S. Mrenna, P. Schuster, J. Thaler, N. Toro and L.-T. Wang, 

“MARMOSET: The Path from LHC Data to the New Standard Model via On-Shell Effective 

Theories,” (2007) hep-ph/0703088.

21. Adams, Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dubovsky, A. Nicolis and R. Rattazzi, “Causality, analyticity and an 

IR obstruction to UV completion,” JHEP 0610; 014 (2006). 

22. Nima Arkani-Hamed, A. Delgado and G.F. Giudice, “The Well-tempered neutralino,” Nucl. Phys. B 

741; 108-130 (2006), hep-ph/0601041.

23. Nima Arkani-Hamed, L. Motl, A. Nicolis and  C. Vafa, “The String landscape, black holes and 

gravity as the weakest force,” (2006) hep-th/0601001.

24. Nima Arkani-Hamed, G.L. Kane, J. Thaler and L-T. Wang, “Supersymmetry and the LHC inverse 

problem,” JHEP 0608;070 (2006). hep-ph/0512190.

25. Nima Arkani-Hamed, H-C. Cheng, M.A. Luty, S. Mukohyama and T. Wiseman, “Dynamics of 

gravity in a Higgs phase,” JHEP 0701; 036 (2007). hep-ph/0507120.

26. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos and S. Kachru, “Predictive landscapes and new physics at a 

TeV,” (2005)  hep-th/0501082.

27. P. Creminelli, H. Georgi, and Nima Arkani-Hamed, “A larger than naive cut-off in a simple model,” 

In Shifman, M. (ed.) et al.: “From fields to strings,” Vol. 3, 2095-2107, (2005).

28. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G.F. Giudice and A. Romanino, “Aspects of split 

supersymmetry,” Nucl. Phys. B709;3-46 (2005). hep-ph/0409232.

29. Nima Arkani-Hamed, H-C Cheng, M.A. Luty and J. Thaler, “Universal dynamics of spontaneous

Lorentz violation and a new spin-dependent inverse-square law force,” JHEP 0507;029 (2005).     

hep-ph/0407034.

30. Nima Arkani-Hamed and S. Dimopoulos, “Supersymmetric unification without low energy 

supersymmetry and signatures for fine-tuning at the LHC,” JHEP 0506; 073 (2005). 

31. Nima Arkani-Hamed, P. Creminelli, S. Mukohyama and M. Zaldarriaga, “Ghost inflation,” JCAP 

0404:001 (2004). hep-th/0312100.

32. Nima Arkani-Hamed, H-C. Cheng, M.A. Luty and S. Mukohyama, “Ghost condensation and a 

consistent infrared modification of gravity,” JHEP 0405;074 (2004). hep-th/0312099.4

33. Nima Arkani-Hamed and M. D. Schwartz, “Discrete gravitational dimensions,” HUTP-03-A015, Feb 

2003. Phys. Rev. D69:104001 (2004). hep-th/0302110.

34. Nima Arkani-Hamed, H-C. Cheng, P. Creminelli and L. Randall, “Pseudonatural inflation,” JCAP

0307;003 (2003). hep-th/0302034.

35. Nima Arkani-Hamed, H-C. Cheng, P. Creminelli and L. Randall, “Extra natural inflation,” Phys. Rev. 

Lett.  90:221302 (2003). hep-th/0301218.

36. Nima Arkani-Hamed, H. Georgi and M.D. Schwartz, “Effective field theory for massive gravitons 

and gravity in theory space,” Annals  Phys. 305:96-118 (2003). hep-th/0210184.

37. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G. Dvali and G. Gabadadze, “Nonlocal modification of gravity 

and the cosmological constant problem,” (2002). hep-th/0209227.

38. Nima Arkani-Hamed, A.G. Cohen, E. Katz and A.E. Nelson, “The Littlest Higgs,” JHEP 0207;034 

(2002). hep-ph/0206021.

39. Nima Arkani-Hamed, A.G. Cohen, E. Katz, A.E. Nelson, T. Gregoire and J. G. Wacker, “The 

Minimal moose for a little Higgs,” JHEP 0208;021 (2002). hep-ph/0206020.

40. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos and G. Dvali, “Large extra dimensions: A new arena for 

particle physics,” 2002. Phys.Today 55N2:35-40 (2002). 

41. Nima Arkani-Hamed, A.G. Cohen, T. Gregoire and J.G. Wacker, “Phenomenology of electroweak 

symmetry breaking from theory space,” JHEP 0208;020 (2002). hep-ph/0202089.

42. Nima Arkani-Hamed, A.G. Cohen, D.B. Kaplan, A. Karch and L. Motl, “Deconstructing (2,0) and 

little string theories,” JHEP 0301;083 (2003). hep-th/0110146.

43. Nima Arkani-Hamed, A.G. Cohen and H. Georgi, “Twisted supersymmetry and the topology of 

theory space,” JHEP 0207;020 (2002). hep-th/0109082.

44. Nima Arkani-Hamed, A.G. Cohen and H. Georgi, “Accelerated unification,” (2001) hep-th/0108089.

45. Nima Arkani-Hamed, A.G. Cohen and H. Georgi, “Electroweak symmetry breaking from 

dimensional deconstruction,” Phys.Lett.B513; 232-240 (2001).  hep-ph/0105239.

46. Nima Arkani-Hamed, A.G. Cohen and H. Georgi, “(De)constructing dimensions,” Phys. Rev.Lett. 

86:4757-4761 (2001). hep-th/0104005.

47. Nima Arkani-Hamed, A.G. Cohen and H. Georgi, “Anomalies on orbifolds,” Phys. Lett. B 516; 395-

402 (2001). hep-th/0103135.

48. Nima Arkani-Hamed, L.J. Hall, Y. Nomura, D. R. Smith and N. Weiner, “Finite radiative 

electroweak symmetry breaking from the bulk,”  Nucl. Phys. B 605; 81-115 (2001). hep-ph/0102090.

49. Nima Arkani-Hamed, T. Gregoire and J.G. Wacker, “Higher dimensional supersymmetry in 4-D 

superspace,” JHEP 0203; 055 (2002). hep-th/0101233.

50. Nima Arkani-Hamed, M. Porrati and L. Randall, “Holography and phenomenology, “ JHEP 

0108;017 (2001). hep-th/0012148.5

51. Nima Arkani-Hamed, D.E. Kaplan, H. Murayama and Y. Nomura, “Viable ultraviolet insensitive 

supersymmetry breaking.” JHEP 0102;041 (2001). hep-ph/0012103.

52. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos and  G.R. Dvali, “The universe's unseen dimensions,” Scientific 

American, August 2000.

53. Nima Arkani-Hamed, L.J. Hall, H. Murayama, D.R. Smith and N. Weiner, “Neutrino masses at 

v**(3/2),” hep-ph/0007001.

54. Nima Arkani-Hamed, L.J. Hall, H. Murayama, D.R. Smith and N. Weiner, “Small neutrino masses 

from supersymmetry breaking,”  Phys.Rev.D 64;115011 (2001). hep-ph/0006312.

55. Nima Arkani-Hamed, H-C. Cheng, B.A. Dobrescu and  L.J. Hall, “Selfbreaking of the standard 

model gauge symmetry,” Phys. Rev. D 62;096006 (2000). hep-ph/0006238.

56. Nima Arkani-Hamed, et al, “A New perspective on cosmic coincidence problems,” Phys. Rev Lett 85; 

4434-4437 (2000). astro-ph/0005111.

57. Nima Arkani-Hamed et al, “A Small cosmological constant from a large extra dimension,” Phys. Lett. 

B480; 193-199 (2000). hep-th/0001197.

58. Nima Arkani-Hamed et al, “Solving the hierarchy problem with exponentially large dimensions,” 

Phys. Rev. D 62;105002 (2000). hep-ph/9912453.

59. Nima Arkani-Hamed et al, “Exponentially small supersymmetry breaking from extra dimensions,” 

Phys. Rev. D 63; 056003 (2001). hep-ph/9911421.

60. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G.R. Dvali and N. Kaloper, “Many fold universe,” JHEP 0012; 

010 (2000). hep-ph/9911386.

61. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Y. Grossman and M. Schmaltz, “Split fermions in extra dimensions and 

exponentially small cross-sections at future colliders,” Phys. Rev. D 61; 115004 (2000).                  

hep-ph/9909411.

62. Nima Arkani-Hamed, L.J. Hall and D.R. Smith, “Flavor at the TeV scale with extra dimensions,” 

Phys Rev. D 61;116003 (2000). hep-ph/9909326.

63. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos and J. March-Russell, “Logarithmic unification from 

symmetries enhanced in the submillimeter infrared,” in Shifman, M.A. (ed.): “The many faces of the 

superworld,” 627-648. hep-th/9908146.

64. Nima Akrani-Hamed, S. Dimmopoulos, G.R. Dvali and N. Kaloper, “Infinitely large new 

dimensions,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 84; 586-589 (2000). hep-th/9907209. 

65. Nima Arkani-Hamed and M. Schmaltz, “Hierarchies without symmetries from extra dimensions,” 

Phys. Rev. D 61; 033005 (2000). hep-ph/9903417.

66. Nima Arkani Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, N. Kaloper and J. March-Russell, “Early Inflation and 

Cosmology in Theories with Sub-millimeter Dimensions,” proceedings of the Second International 

Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe (COSMO-98), AIP Conference Proceedings, 

478, 237-243 (1999). hep-ph/9903239.6

67. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos and N. Kaloper, “Rapid asymmetric inflation and early 

cosmology in theories with submillimeter dimensions,” Nucl. Phys B 567;189-228 (2000).            

hep-ph/9903224.

68. Nima Arkani-Hamed and M. Schmaltz, “Field theoretic branes and tachyons of the QCD string,” 

Phys. Lett B 450; 92-98 (1999). hep-th/9812010.

69. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G.R. Dvali and J. March-Russell, “Neutrino masses from large 

extra dimensions,” Phys Rev. D 65; 024032 (2002). hep-ph/9811448.

70. Nima Arkani-Hamed and S. Dimopoulos, “New Origin for approximate symmetries from distant 

breaking in extra dimensions,” Phys Rev D 65; 052003 (2002). hep-ph/9811353.

71. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos and J. March-Russell, “Stabilization of submillimeter 

dimensions: The New guise of the hierarchy problem,” Phys Rev. D 63; 064020 (2001).                  

hep-th/9809124.

72. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos and G.R Dvali, “Phenomenology, astrophysics and cosmology 

of theories with submillimeter dimensions and TeV scale quantum gravity,” Phys. Rev. D 59; 086004 

(1999). hep-ph/9807344.

73. Nima Arkani-Hamed and Y. Grossman, “Light active and sterile neutrinos from compositeness,” 

Phys. Lett B 459; 179-182 (1999). hep-ph/9806223.

74. Nima Arkani-Hamed, I. Antoniadis, S. Dimopoulos and G.R. Dvali, “New dimensions at a millimeter 

to a Fermi and superstrings at a TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 436; 257-263 (1998). hep-ph/9804398.

75. Nima Arkani-Hamed and R. Rattazzi, “Exact results for nonholomorphic masses in softly broken 

supersymmetric gauge theories,” Phys. Lett. B454: 290-296 (1999). hep-th/9804068. 

76. Nima Arkani-Hamed, M. Dine and S. P. Martin, “Dynamical supersymmetry breaking in models with 

a Green-Schwarz mechanism,” Phys. Lett B 431; 329-338 (1998). hep-ph/9803432.

77. Nima Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos and GR Dvali, “The Hierarchy problem and new dimensions at 

a millimeter,” Phys Lett B 429; 263-272 (1998). hep-ph/9803315. 

78. Nima Arkani-Hamed, G. F. Giudice, M. A Luty and R. Rattazzi, “Supersymmetry breaking loops 

from analytic continuation into superspace,” Phys. Rev D 58; 115005 (1998). hep-ph/9803290.

79. Nima Arkani-Hamed, M. A. Luty and J. Terning, “Composite quarks and leptons from dynamical 

supersymmetry breaking without messengers,” Phys. Rev. D 58; 015004 (1998). hep-ph/9712389.

80. Nima Arkani-Hamed and H. Muryama, “Holomorphy, rescaling anomalies and exact beta functions 

in supersymmetric gauge theories,” JHEP 0006;030 (2000). hep-th/9707133.

81. Nima Arkani-Hamed and H. Murayama, “Renormalization group invariance of exact results in 

supersymmetric gauge theories,” Phys. Rev. D 57; 6638-6648 (1998). hep-th/9705189.

82. Nima Arkani-Hamed, J. L. Feng, L. J. Hall and H.-C. Cheng, “CP violation from slepton oscillations 

at the LHC and NLC,” Nucl. Phys. B 505;3-39 (1997). hep-ph/9704205. 

83. Nima Arkani-Hamed and H. Murayama, “Can the supersymmetric flavor problem decouple?” Phys. 

Rev. D 56; 6733-6737 (1997). hep-ph/9703259. 7

84. Nima Arkani-Hamed, J. March-Russell and H. Murayama, “Building models of gauge mediated 

supersymmetry breaking without a messenger sector,” Nucl. Phys. B 509; 3-32 (1998).                           

hep-ph/9701286.

85. Nima Arkani-Hamed, H.-C. Cheng and T. Moroi, “Nonunified gaugino masses in supersymmetric 

missing partner models with hypercolor,” Phys. Lett. B 387; 529-534 (1996). hep-ph/9607463.

86. Nima Arkani-Hamed, C. D. Carone, L. J. Hall and H. Murayama, “Supersymmetric framework for a 

dynamical fermion mass hierarchy,” Phys. Rev. D 54; 7032-7050 (1996). hep-ph/9607298.

87. Nima Arkani-Hamed, H.-C. Cheng, J. L. Feng and L. J. Hall, “Probing lepton flavor violation at 

future colliders,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 77; 1937-1940 (1996).

88. Nima Arkani-Hamed, H.-C. Cheng and L.J. Hall, “A Supersymmetric theory of flavor with radiative 

fermion masses,” Phys. Rev. D 54; 2242-2260 (1996). hep-ph/9601262. 

89. Nima Arkani-Hamed, H.C. Cheng and L.J. Hall, “A New supersymmetric framework for fermion 

masses,” Nucl. Phys. B 472; 95-108 (1996). hep-ph/9512302.

90. Nima Arkani-Hamed, H.C. Cheng and L.J. Hall, “Flavor mixing signals for realistic supersymmetric 

unification,” Phys. Rev. D 53; 413-436 (1996). hep-ph/9508288.