Falling Walls Falling Walls Science Summit 2023

Breaking the Wall of Cosmic Origins

Anna Ijjas

Physical Sciences

Dr. Ijjas’ new cyclic theory shows that the observed properties of the universe are best explained by replacing the “big bang” with a “big bounce” – a smooth transition from contraction to expansion. Combining diverse tools from mathematical and numerical relativity, astronomy, and high energy physics, she further showed that, driven by dark energy, there could be an infinite number of bounces in our past and future, radically changing our view of space, time and the cosmos.

Tags: Space & the Universe

Anna Ijjas

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physis (Albert Einstein Institute)

Anna Ijjas is a theoretical cosmologist. A native of Hungary, she did her undergraduate studies in Munich. After a brief stint in the philosophy of physics that earned her an award-winning PhD in 2010, she completed another PhD in theoretical physics in 2014 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She was named the inaugural John A. Wheeler Fellow at Princeton and spent the following two years at Columbia and Harvard as a Principal Investigator of the multi-national Simons “Origins of the Universe” Initiative. In 2019 she joined the Max Planck Society as a Lise Meitner Excellence Group Leader.

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