Research Interest of Thomas Grimm

      Publication 1: GUTs in Type IIB Orientifold Compactifications (URL)
      Publication 2: Axion inflation in type II string theory (URL)
      Publication 3: Soft supersymmetry breaking in Calabi-Yau orientifolds with D-branes and fluxes (URL)

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Statement of Interest:


  My research focuses on four-dimensional string theory
compactifications emphasizing both their phenomenological
and conceptual aspects. This includes a detailed study of
the minimally supersymmetric effective actions and the
interrelation of the internal geometries and the 
phenomenological properties of the effective theories. 
I study the compactifications of string theory with D-branes, orientifold planes and background fluxes 
and their F-theory and M-theory lifts. Within these
compactifications I investigate GUT model building, supersymmetry breaking as well as the embedding of 
simple cosmological scenarios.