Olaf Dreyer
Template:Short description Template:Infobox scientist Olaf Dreyer (born 1969, Hamburg) is a German theoretical physicist whose research interests include quantum gravity and the quantum measurement problem. Dreyer received his Ph.D. in quantum gravity in 2001 from the Pennsylvania State University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> under the direction of Abhay Ashtekar.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Subsequently, he has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, a Marie Curie Fellowship at Imperial College, London, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 2002 Dreyer proposed<ref>Template:Citation</ref> a connection between the Barbero-Immirzi parameter in loop quantum gravity and the asymptotic behaviour of black hole quasinormal modes (in numerical general relativity), building on previous insights due to Shahar Hod.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> Subsequently, Lubos Motl proved that the exact asymptotic behaviour of the quasinormal modes of the Schwarzschild black hole was as predicted numerically.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
Dreyer has developed an approach to quantum gravity known as "internal relativity".<ref>Template:Citation</ref>