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Netta Engelhardt

Netta Engelhardt is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist and MIT professor known for her work on the black hole information paradox.

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Born: 16 November 1988, Jerusalem
Occupation: physicist
Education: Brandeis University, University of California, Santa Barbara

Netta Engelhardt was born in 1988 in Jerusalem

Netta Engelhardt was born in Jerusalem on November 16, 1988. In 1998 she moved with her family to Boston.

She earned a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from Brandeis University in 2011. In 2016 she completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, under Gary Horowitz.

After postdoctoral research at Princeton University, she joined the physics faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019. She is an associate professor there. Her research deals with the loss of information from objects that fall into black holes and turn into Hawking radiation.

She received a Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in 2019 and the New Horizons in Physics Prize in 2021. In 2023 the European Physical Society awarded her the Gribov Medal.