Introductory Lectures on Higher-Spin Theories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783031596551)

​Stefan Fredenhagen is a theoretical/mathematical physicist and a professor at the University of Vienna (Austria). He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Hamburg in 1999. As a graduate student, he conducted research at the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam (Germany) and earned his PhD in 2002 from Humboldt University Berlin (Germany), for which he was awarded the Otto-Hahn Medal in 2003.

Following his doctoral studies, he held postdoctoral positions at the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau (France), the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette (France), and the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (Switzerland). He served as a junior staff member at the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics starting in 2006. Subsequently, he held a guest professorship at Humboldt University in Berlin before joining the University of Vienna as a professor of mathematical physics in 2016.

His research focuses on the theoretical and mathematical aspects of quantum field theory, gravity, and string theory, particularly emphasizing higher-spin gravity theories and conformal quantum field theories.