Rate My Professor Inaki García-Etxebarria

Professor Iñaki García Etxebarria is a Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University. He received his PhD from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2008 under the supervision of Angel Uranga. Prior to joining Durham University in 2018, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania, CERN, and the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich. His research interests include Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, Dualities, and String Phenomenology. García Etxebarria has broad interests spanning string model building to the construction and analysis of strongly coupled quantum field theories using string theory realizations. He serves as Principal Investigator for the Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetries (2021-2028).

García Etxebarria has made major contributions to the field, including the construction of the first examples of N=3 superconformal field theories in four dimensions, development of geometric techniques to extract higher symmetry structures of strongly coupled conformal field theories from their string theory geometry, and construction of Lagrangians for various classes of strongly coupled N=2 superconformal field theories. His key publications include 'Anomaly-induced vanishing of brane partition functions' (2026, Journal of High Energy Physics, with F. B. Christensen and E. Leung), 'SymTFT Fans: The symmetry theory of 4d N=4 super Yang-Mills on spaces with boundaries' (2025, Journal of High Energy Physics, with J. Huertas and A. M. Uranga), 'Some aspects of symmetry descent' (2024, Journal of High Energy Physics, with S. S. Hosseini), 'Global structures from the infrared' (2023, Journal of High Energy Physics, with M. Del Zotto), 'Symmetry TFTs from String Theory' (2023, Communications in Mathematical Physics, with F. Apruzzi et al.), 'Branes and Non-Invertible Symmetries' (2022, Fortschritte der Physik), and '2-Group symmetries and M-theory' (2022, SciPost Physics, with M. Del Zotto and S. Schäfer-Nameki). He supervises PhD students in mathematical and theoretical physics.