Eric Perlmutter is a permanent member of the Institute of Theoretical Physics (IPhT) at CEA Paris-Saclay, where he conducts research at the intersection of quantum field theory and quantum gravity. A graduate of Brown University, he received his PhD from UCLA, followed by postdoctoral positions at the University of Cambridge, Princeton University, and Caltech; most recently, he was a visiting research director at the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies (IHES). His work focuses on the high-energy behavior of conformal field theories with many degrees of freedom. He studies how this behavior encodes the chaos and randomness of black hole states in gravity, and how these phenomena have structural connections to analytic number theory.
