Watch: Eva Silverstein on String Theory, Quantum Gravity and the History of the Universe

Eva Silverstein is a 2017 Simons Investigator in physics and a principal investigator in the Origins of the Universe program. Her research connects the mathematical structure of string theory to predictions for cosmological observables, with implications for dualities, space-time singularities and black hole physics. Her work on axion monodromy provided a theoretically consistent model of large-field inflation.