Description
Supersymmetric grand unification in extra dimensions has been a very active topic of research during the last decade. In this talk we will review how GUT-scale extra dimensions can help with the problems of conventional 4D GUTs, as well as with the flavour problem. They also provide elegant and predictive mechanisms for mediating supersymmetry breaking. These can lead to characteristic soft term patterns, such as a degenerate GUT-scale Higgs mass matrix. We will discuss the soft terms in certain classes of models and their implications for LHC physics.