Lavinia Heisenberg

Lavinia Heisenberg is a German physicist. She teaches as a professor of theoretical physics and cosmology at the University of Heidelberg. Heisenberg's research is primarily in the field of cosmology, on physical models for describing the cosmos, and her focus is on gravity, one of the four fundamental forces in physics. Heisenberg studied and conducted research in Heidelberg, Stockholm, Marseille, Valencia, Lisbon, Pisa, Paris, Cape Town, Tokyo, Waterloo and Cleveland. In 2018, Lavinia Heisenberg was awarded the Gustav-Hertz-Prize for her pioneering contributions to the development of theories of gravitation. "With her work in particular on a generalised, Proca-like Lagrangian density for vector fields on curved spacetimes and on its cosmological relevance, she has opened up a new direction for gravitational research." Since November 2021, Heisenberg has been teaching and researching at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at Heidelberg University.