Horatiu Nastase
Horaţiu Năstase is an Romanian Asst. Professor (Research) -postdoc- in the High energy physics group at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA.
He was born in Bucharest, Romania and finished high school at the 'Nicolae Bălceascu' High School (now 'Saint Sava National College'). He did his undergraduate studies at the Physics Department of the University of Bucharest, from where he graduated in 1995. The last year he studied at the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), Copenhagen University, with a scholarship which continued in the following year. In 1996 he joined the Physics Department of S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook from which he got his PhD in May 2000. From 2000 to 2002 he was a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, after which he came to Brown.
According to the BBC, Năstase may have created a black hole at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider particle accelerator in New York City. [1].
Some of his reseach concerns String theory.
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