Research

• General properties of field theories with quenched disorder
• Dualities between field theories in various dimensions
• Conformal bootstrap at large N and quantum gravity
• Non-local deformations of quantum field theories

• Astronomical Instrumentation - UV-to-NIR spectrographs and Imagers
• Exoplanets - Habitable Zone planets of small and compact stellar sources
• Exoplanet Habitability - UV activity of stellar hosts
• Sky surveys - Large FoV High Cadence

• String theory, Field theory, Gravity
• Particle Phenomenology
• Conformal field theory applications in condensed matter systems
• Quantum information and black holes

• Theoretical particle physics
• Particle cosmology
• High-energy astrophysics

• detection of concealed explosives and nuclear materials (Homeland security)
• Photon imaging detectors
• Noble-liquid detector concepts for Dark-matter searches, neutrino physics and medical diagnostics
• Advanced gas-avalanche electron multipliers

ATLAS experiment - searches for BSM physics

• Generic data directed searches for bumps
• Searches for asymmetries in electron/muon final states

R&D of novel radiation concepts

• Particle flow calorimetry
• Charge and light readout in active target TPCs

• Future concepts for Cosmic Ray precision detection
• Dark Matter detection:
• The XENON Dark Matter project: Data analysis, physics interpretations, development and construction of the future detector XENONnT , PMTs, calibration techniques
• Detector physics: Novel effects in LXe detectors

• Hardware: the construction of sTGC (stripped Thin Gap Chambers) for the ATLAS new small wheel
• Search for "Physics Beyond the Standard Model" by studying super energetic events with large number of jets

• Core-collapse supernova explosions: their origins, nature, physics and population statistics
• Thermonuclear supernova explosions (SNe Ia): their nature and rates
• Gamma-Ray Bursts: their origin and relation to supernovae
• New types of cosmic explosions

• Magnetic moments of very high-spin states
• Nuclei with extreme values of isospin in far-from-stability region
• Parity non-conservation

Higgs Physics with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

• Search for Charged Higgs Boson
• Search for Higgs Decay to Charm Quarks
• Charm Tag
• Statistics in High Energy Physics

• Multi-dimensional tunnelling
• Time-dependent quantum transport in mesoscopic system

• Neutrino Physics (Particle Physics, cosmology, astrophysics implications)
• Patterns of quarks and leptons (masses, mixing, substructure)

• Heavy quark production at the HERA e-p collider
• Gluon density in the proton and partonic structure of the photon
• Tests of QCD dynamics in high-energy e-p collisions

Open questions in theoretical astrophysics including:

• How do stars explode to produce supernovae?
• The three body problem (surprisingly connected to supernovae)
• Where do Cosmic Rays come from and how are they accelerated?

• High-energy astrophysics and gravitational waves astronomy
• Supernova explosions of type Ia are due to direct collisions of white dwarf stars
• Core-collapse supernovae are thermonuclear explosions

• Study of High-Energy-Density Plasmas
• High-Power-Laser matter interaction

• Trigger and data acquisition for LHC experiments
• Search for Higgs bosons and SUSY particles at LHC
• Search for Supersymmetry at LEP
• Detector development and study of physics for LHC

• Departure from Newtonian dynamics as an explanation of the dark-matter problem in galactic systems.
• High energy astrophysics: x-ray sources, gamma-ray sources.
• Black holes at the centers of galaxies

• Detector upgrades for ATLAS and PHENIX
• Collective dynamics.
• Heavy boson production and boson-jet correlations
• Global event characterization

• Particle cosmology: Electroweak baryogenesis
• Higgs physics
• Flavor physics and CP violation
• Gender in physics

• The nature of transients
• Gravitational waves events and NS-NS mergers
• Search for the Oort cloud and the Solar System formation
• Gravitational lensing and microlensing
• Survey Telescopes & Algorithms

• Relaxion physics
• Searching for new forces with optical atomic clock spectroscopy
• Dark matter
• Higgs and flavor physics

• Physics analysis with the ATLAS experiment
• Upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer
• LUXE experiment for probing strong field QED

• Experimental study of quark-gluon plasma and chiral symmetry restoration
• R&D, construction and installation of an HBD for the PHENIX experiment
• Study of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions using the PHENIX detector

• Magnetized plasma
• Ultra-strong magnetic fields
• Strange-quark matter stars

• The structure of small molecules in gas phase
• Coulomb explosion imaging

• Neutrino and cosmic-ray astrophysics
• Cosmic explosions (Fast radio bursts, Neutron star mergers, Gamma-ray bursts, Supernovae)
• The ULTRASAT UV satellite project

• Applicative algorithms and statistical methods in observational astrophysics.
• Gravitational wave astrophysics.
• Exoplanets
• Pulsar and Fast Radio Burst astronomy

• Atomic and Molecular Physics
• Ion trapping, storage rings, photodissociation, photodetachement, cluster physics

• Strongly coupled plasma
• Interactions of energetic charged particles with matter