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Tim Wrasse

Timm Wrase

Associate Professor

610.758.6432
tiw419@lehigh.edu
Lewis Lab 418
Education:

PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2008

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Additional Interests

  • Supergravity
  • Supersymmetry

Research Statement

Professor Wrase’s research centers around various aspects of string theory and associated areas in cosmology, mathematical physics and quantum field theory. In particular, he is working on understanding how one can describe inflation and dark energy in string theory and supergravity, as well as on connections between string theory and pure mathematics that go by the name moonshine.

 

Biography

Timm Wrase received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Afterwards he held postdoc positions at the Max-Planck-Institute in Munich, Cornell University and Stanford University. Before joining Lehigh in January 2020, he was an assistant professor at the Technical University Vienna in Austria. In his research he is using string theory, the best understood theory of quantum gravity, to construct theoretical models that describe the cosmological evolution of our universe. His other research interests include supergravity, dualities in string theory and moonshine phenomena that connect different branches of mathematics.

 Recent Publications

  1. Preprint under review: K. Becker, E. Gonzalo, J. Walcher, T. Wrase “Fluxes, Vacua, and Tadpoles meet Landau-Ginzburg and Fermat”. Preprint appeared on October 9th. Publication expected mid to end of November 2022.
  2. Preprint under review: D. Andriot, P. Marconnet, M. Rajaguru, T. Wrase “Automated consistent truncations and stability of flux compactifications,” arXiv: 2209.08015 [hep-th]. Publication expected mid to end of November 2022.
  3. R. Kallosh, A. Linde, T. Wrase and Y. Yamada, “Goldstino condensation?,” JHEP 08, 166 (2022) doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2022)166 [arXiv:2206.04210 [hep-th]].
  4. J. Bardzell, E. Gonzalo, M. Rajaguru, D. Smith and T. Wrase, “Type IIB flux compactifications with h1,1 = 0,” JHEP 06, 166 (2022) doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2022)166 [arXiv:2203.15818 [hep-th]].
  5. F. Apers, M. Montero, T. Van Riet and T. Wrase, “Comments on classical AdS flux vacua with scale separation,” JHEP 05, 167 (2022) doi:10.1007/JHEP05(2022)167 [arXiv:2202.00682 [hep-th]].
  6. N. Cribiori, S. Parameswaran, F. Tonioni and T. Wrase, “Modular invariance, misalignment and finiteness in non-supersymmetric strings,” JHEP 01, 127 (2022) doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2022)127 [arXiv:2110.11973 [hep-th]].
  7. R. Kallosh, A. Linde, T. Wrase and Y. Yamada, “Sequestered Inflation,” Fortsch. Phys. 69, no.11-12, 2100128 (2021) doi:10.1002/prop.202100128 [arXiv:2108.08491 [hep-th]].
  8. R. Kallosh, A. Linde, T. Wrase and Y. Yamada, “IIB String Theory and Sequestered Inflation,” Fortsch. Phys. 69, no.11-12, 2100127 (2021) doi:10.1002/prop.202100127 [arXiv:2108.08492 [hep-th]].
  9. N. Cribiori, D. Junghans, V. Van Hemelryck, T. Van Riet and T. Wrase, “Scale separated AdS4 vacua of IIA orientifolds and M-theory,” Phys. Rev. D 104, no.12, 126014 (2021) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.126014 [arXiv:2107.00019 [hep-th]].
  10. N. Cribiori, S. Parameswaran, F. Tonioni and T. Wrase, “Misaligned Supersymmetry and Open Strings,” JHEP 04, 099 (2021) doi:10.1007/JHEP04(2021)099 [arXiv:2012.04677 [hep-th]].
  11. D. Andriot, P. Marconnet and T. Wrase, “Intricacies of classical de Sitter string backgrounds,” Phys. Lett. B 812, 136015 (2021) doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.136015 [arXiv:2006.01848 [hep-th]].

Teaching

PHY 031: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 
PHY 090: From Black Holes to Strings: The Early Universe and the Nature of Space and Time
ASTR 332 / PHY 332: High-Energy Astrophysics 
PHY 369: Quantum Mechanics II 
ASTR 395 / PHY 395: Cosmology