Amanda Peet

Since 2000, an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. She took her Bachelor of Science degree with honors at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1990, and a Ph.D. at Stanford University, California in 1994. She has done postdoctoral research at Princeton University (1994-97) and the Institute for Theoretical Physics (1997-2000). She is a member of the Toronto high-energy theory group, where her focus is to understand the fundamental dynamics of quantum gravity, using string theory and its applications to black holes and cosmology.