Gerald B. Cleaver


Gerald B. Cleaver is a professor in the Department of Physics at Baylor University and is the Head of the Early Universe Cosmology and Strings division of Baylor's Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering Research. His research specialty is string phenomenology and string model building.

Career

Gerald Cleaver did his Ph.D. at Caltech where John H. Schwarz was his thesis adviser. As a postdoc at Texas A&M University he worked with Dimitri Nanopoulos.

Research

With Dimitri Nanopoulos Cleaver constructed the first string-derived model containing only the particles of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model in the observable sector.
At Baylor University Cleaver has constructed the first string derived Near-MSSM possessing the potential to resolve the factor-of-20 difference between the MSSM unification scale of 2.5×1025 eV and the weakly coupled heterotic string scale of 5×1026 eV via a robust method referred to as "optical unification".