Silviu Pufu is a Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 2011 and, prior to that, earned an A.B. in Physics, also from Princeton, in 2007. He was a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2011 to 2013. His research interests include various topics in quantum field theory, string theory, and gravity, such as conformal field theory, the gauge/gravity duality, string scattering amplitudes, confining gauge theories, and lattice gauge theory.  He was the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2017, and a PI of the Simons Collaboration for Nonperturbative Bootstrap between 2016 and 2023.