education
PhD (1998) University of Hamburg and Albert-Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany
career
2006 – present: Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
2004 – 2006: Junior professor, University of Hamburg, Germany
2001 – 2003: Post-doc, Spinoza Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
1998 – 2001: Post-doc, LPTENS, Paris, France
distinctions
2021: Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
2020: Promotion to Professeur classe exceptionnelle by the CNU
2010 – 2015: Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
2007: awarded a Chaire d’Excellence by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France
area of research
supergravity, string theory, gauge theories, mathematical physics
publications
> 130 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, 19 proceedings, 1 book edited
> 8000 citations with an h-index of 49 (source: INSPIRE, September 2025)
PhD students
O. Hohm (2006), M. Weidner (2006), A. Le Diffon (2010), T. Ortiz (2014), S. Lavau (2016),
A. Baguet (2017), C. Eloy (2021), Y. Bertrand (2022), B. Duboeuf (2024), A. Bovon (current),
A. Proust (current), N. Marion (current)
member of 48 PhD/Habilitation committees
other professional experience
since 2022: Elected member of the Conseil National des Universités (CNU) section 29
2022: Chair of the organizing committee “Eurostrings 2022”, Lyon, France
since 2016: International Coordinator, Department of Physics, ENS Lyon
2015 – 2019: Elected member of the Conseil National des Universités (CNU) section 29
2011 – 2015: Appointed member of the Conseil National des Universités (CNU) section 29
2010 – 2017: Deputy director of the PhD Graduate School PHAST (ED 52), Lyon
2010 – 2014: Member of the commission for scientific validation of submission to HAL
2008 – 2019: Co-organizer Journées de Physique Mathématique de Lyon
2006: Project leader in the DFG-SFB Particles, Strings and Early Universe
2004 – 2006: Project leader for 2 DFG grants (German Research Foundation)
reviewer for 25 international journals and 20 international funding agencies
short CV
Henning Samtleben