Robert Leigh

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Robert G. Leigh
Born	1964 Canada
Fields	particle physics
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alma mater	University of Guelph University of Texas at Austin

Robert Leigh (born 1964 in Canada) is a physicist working on string theory. His contributions to theoretical physics include D-branes and the discovery, with Matthew Strassler, of conformal field theories in dimensions higher than two.

He obtained his B.Sc. degree from the University of Guelph in 1986, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991, working with Joe Polchinski. After postdoctoral positions at Santa Cruz and Rutgers, he has been a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1996.