Overview
M.S.(Hons), The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia (1994) Ph.D., Cornell University, US (1999), Dissertation title: Statistical Mechanics of Cracks; Dualities in Supersymmetric Field Theories; Orientifolds of Type IIB Strings with Discrete B Flux Postgraduate Researcher, Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, US (1999-2002) Research Fellow, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics , UofM, US (2002-2003) Assistant Professor, UWO (2003-2007) Associate Professor, UWO (2007-2012) Professor, UWO (2012-) Associate Member, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada (2003-)
Teaching Affiliations
University of Western Ontario, Department of Applied Mathematics, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Research Interests
My research efforts focus on understanding quantum properties of black holes and the origin of our Universe, as described by string theory. Additionally, I'm involved in developing analytical tools in string theory that could shed new light on strong interactions of subatomic particles.
Positions Held
- Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, 2007-2012
- Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, 2007-present
- Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, 2003-2007
- Research Fellow, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics , UofM, 2002-2003
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, 1999-2002
Awards
- Discovery Grant, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), 2022-2027
- Discovery Grant, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), 2021-2022
- Early Researcher Award, Ministry of Research and Innovation, Province of Ontario, Canada, 2007
Recent Publications
- Buchel, A. (n.d.). Instability of baryonic black branes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025(5), 215. doi:10.1007/jhep05(2025)215
- Buchel, A. (2025). On the relevance of GIKS instability of charged N=4 SYM plasma. arxiv:2502.11354v1
- Buchel, A. (2025). Fluxification and scalarization of the conifold black holes. Physical Review D, 111(4), 046010. doi:10.1103/physrevd.111.046010
- Buchel, A. (2025). Instability of Baryonic Black Branes. arxiv:2502.05971v2
- Buchel, A. (2025). The ordered phase of charged N=4 SYM plasma from STU. arxiv:2501.12403v1
- Buchel, A. (2025). The ordered phase of charged N=4 SYM plasma. arxiv:2501.01856v2
- Buchel, A. (2024). Fluxification and scalarization of the conifold black holes. arxiv:2411.15950v2
- Buchel, A. (2024). Holographic conformal order with higher derivatives. Nuclear Physics B, 1004, 116578. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2024.116578
- Buchel, A. (2024). Holographic Gauss-Bonnet transport. Physics Letters B, 853, 138666. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138666
- Buchel, A., Cremonini, S., & Early, L. (n.d.). Holographic transport beyond the supergravity approximation. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024(4), 32. doi:10.1007/jhep04(2024)032
- Buchel, A. (2024). Plumbing the wormholes of string theory flux compactifications. arxiv:2404.00803v1
- Buchel, A. (2024). Holographic Gauss-Bonnet transport. arxiv:2402.16109v1
- Buchel, A. (2023). Holographic conformal order with higher derivatives. arxiv:2312.15764v1
- Buchel, A., Cremonini, S., & Early, L. (2023). Holographic transport beyond the supergravity approximation. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.05377
- Buchel, A. (n.d.). Gravitational reheating at strong coupling. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(7), 159. doi:10.1007/jhep07(2023)159
- Buchel, A. (2023). Hot Big Bang from inflation without the inflaton reheating. Physics Letters B, 840, 137883. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137883
- Buchel, A. (n.d.). Stability of the cascading gauge theory de Sitter DFPs. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(1), 130. doi:10.1007/jhep01(2023)130
- Buchel, A. (2022). Gravitational susceptibility of QGP. Physical Review D, 106(12), 126024. doi:10.1103/physrevd.106.126024
- Buchel, A. (n.d.). Master equations for de Sitter DFPs. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(9), 227. doi:10.1007/jhep09(2022)227
- Buchel, A. (n.d.). The quest for a conifold conformal order. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(8), 80. doi:10.1007/jhep08(2022)080
- Buchel, A. (2022). Dynamical fixed points in holography. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(2), 128. doi:10.1007/jhep02(2022)128
Seminars
- Holographic transport beyond the supergravity approximation, 34nd Midwest Relativity Meeting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, 2024/11/16
- Status update: transport coefficients of strongly coupled plasma from holography, Heavy Ion Physics in the EIC Era, INT Program INT-24-2b, University of Washington, 2024/08/22
- Status update: transport coefficients of strongly coupled plasma from holography, 2024/04/22
- Gravitational reheating at strong coupling from holography, 2023/11/18
- Dynamical fixed points in holography, 2023/07/27
- From de Sitter hydrodynamics to dynamical fixed points, 2023/06/20
- Dynamical fixed points in holography: theory and cosmological applications, Quantum Fields and Strings, 2023/04/11, PIRSA:23040089
- Dynamical fixed points in holography: theory and cosmological applications, 2023/03/09
- Dynamical fixed points in holography, 2023/01/10
- Dynamical fixed points in holography, 2022/10/08