Ulrich Sperhake

Ulrich Sperhake is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician at the University of Cambridge who became known for breaking Einstein's theory of relativity.

Early life

Ulrich Sperhake obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from University of Southampton in 2001. For one year after that he worked as postdoc at the Department Of Physics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and then from 2002 to 2005 held the same position at the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, a department of Pennsylvania State University. He continued holding this position at Theoretical Physics Institute of University of Jena from 2005 to 2008 and then was a senior postdoc at the Division of Physics, Maths and Astronomy of CalTECH from 2008 to 2010. As of 2010 and till 2012 he worked as Ramon y Cajal Researcher at the Institute of Space Sciences and since that year works as a lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge.

Research

In 2016 he discovered that 5-dimensional black holes can break Einstein's theory of relativity.