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Qaisar Shafi

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Professor 252 Sharp Lab (302) 831-6876 shafi@bartol.udel.edu Home page

Fields of Research

Qaisar Shafi's principal research interests lie in the areas of high-energy physics and cosmology. His list of contributions to these fields include the co-discovery of super-heavy cosmic strings in grand unified theories, the first successful particle physics model of inflation, successful prediction of the top quark mass from SO(10) Yukawa unification, invention of what is now called thermal inflation, and the development of higher dimensional inflationary cosmology. He has also contributed extensively to axion models including the development of the Lazarides-Shafi mechanism and the discovery that the axionic strings are superconducting and display the anomaly inflow mechanism.

Dr. Shafi's current research interests focus on extra dimensional theories, brane models, inflation and dark energy, neutrino oscillations and supersymmetric unification.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt research prize in 1997.