Simone Giombi is professor of physics at Princeton University. He received his undergraduate degree in theoretical physics from the University of Bologna, in Bologna, Italy, and his Ph.D. in physics and astronomy from Stony Brook University in 2007. His research interests include high energy theoretical physics, quantum fields, string theory and related topics. He is especially interested in the interplay between string theory and quantum field theory. He did postdoctoral work at Harvard University and at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics where he was a member of the string theory group. He is a recipient of the New Horizons in Physics Prize in 2017 for imaginative joint work on higher spin gravity and its holographic connection to a new soluble field theory. He also received the 2014 SIGRAV Prize for “Classical and Quantum Gravity.”