PERMANENT MEMBERS
Riccardo Argurio
Office O.6.114
email: Riccardo.Argurio[at]ulb.be
Research interests: String theory, holography, branes at singularities; Strongly coupled gauge theories, (super)symmetry and (super)symmetry breaking; Quantum field theory, renormalization and the hierarchy problem
Personal web page
Glenn Barnich
Office O.6.216
email: Glenn.Barnich[at]ulb.be
Research interests: Quantization methods for gauge field theories, BRST and Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism, algebraic approach to anomalies and renormalization, jet bundle description of local field theories, symmetries and conservation laws in gauge and gravitational theories, higer spin gauge fields, black holes, quantum gravity, monopoles, duality, asymptotically flat and (anti-) de Sitter spacetimes, Casimir physics
Personal web page
Andrès Collinucci
Office O.6.110
email: Giulio.Collinucci[at]ulb.be
Research interests: Supersymmetric gauge theories in various dimensions, F-theory, algebraic geometry
Geoffrey Compère
Office O.6.101
email: Geoffrey.Compere[at]ulb.be
Research interests:
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Stéphane Detournay
Office O.6.116
email: Stephane.Detournay[at]ulb.be
Research interests: Quantum gravity, horizon entropy, holography, black holes. In particular: holography for non-AdS spacetimes (e.g. flat space, Kerr black holes, cosmologies), deformations of AdS/CFT, connexion to non-conformal but possibly integrable field theories, lower dimensional gravity, asymptotic symmetries
Frank Ferrari
Office N.6.202
email: Frank.Ferrari[at]ulb.be
Research interests: Quantum theory of fields, strings and gravity, in particular: quantum theory of black holes, SYK models, tensor and matrix-tensor models, Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity.
Marc Henneaux
Office N.5.105
email: Marc.Henneaux[at]ulb.be
Research interests: Asymptotic symmetries, higher spin gauge files, E(10) hidden symmetry, 3D gravity, algebraic structure of gauge theories
POSTDOCS
Jeremìas Aguilera Damia
Office: O.6.211
email: Jeremias.Aguilera.Damia[at]ulb.be
Research interests: Quantum Field Theory, Renormalization Group Flows, Condensed Matter Systems, Holography
Soumyadeep Chaudhuri
Office: O.6.117
email: Soumyadeep.Chaudhuri[at]ulb.be
Research interests: Quantum field theory, String theory, Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Oscar Fuentealba
Office N.6.204
email: Oscar.Fuentealba[at]ulb.be
Research interests: Asymptotic structure of the spacetime in diverse dimensions, lower dimensional (super)gravity theories, higher spin gauge fields
Romain Pascalie
Office O.6.202
email: Romain.Pascalie[at]ulb.be
Research interests: Quantum field theory, SYK models, tensor and matrix models, non-linear systems
Jakob Salzer
Office O.6.204
email: Jakob.Salzer[at]ulb.be
Research interests:
Luigi Tizzano
Office O.6.210
email: Luigi.Tizzano[at]ulb.be
Research interests: Quantum field theory and its applications to particle and condensed matter physics, as well as supersymmetry, string theory, and mathematical physics
Alejandro Vilar López
Office O.6.203
email: Alejandro.Vilar.Lopez[at]ulb.be
Research interests: Flat holography & asymptotic symmetries, quantum information in holography and QFT
Raphaela Wutte
Office O.6.117
email: Raphaela.Wutte[at]ulb.be
Research interests: Asymptotic and casual structure of spacetime, positive mass theorems, 3D gravity, black holes, ADS/CFT correspondence
PhD STUDENTS
Ankit Aggarwal
Office N.6.101
email: Ankit.Aggarwal[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Stéphane Detournay and Alejandra Castro (UvA)
Thesis: Holography for generic black holes
Adrien Druart
Office O.6.107
email: Adrien.Druart[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Geoffrey Compère
Thesis: Gravitational Waveform Modelling for Large Mass Ratio Binaries
Research interests: General relativity, gravitational waves, classical black holes, self-force and radiation reaction in general relativity, extreme mass-ratio inspirals
José Pablo Figueroa Silva
Office N.6.101
email: Jose.Figueroa.Silva
Co-supervised by Stéphane Detournay (ULB - Belgium) & Julio Oliva (UdeC - Chile)
Thesis: Black hole entropy beyond AdS/CFT
Research interests: Black hole entropy, asymptotic and near-horizon symmetries, asymptotically flat spacetimes, memory effects and holography.
Dima Fontaine
Office N.6.206
email: Dima.Fontaine[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Geoffrey Compère
Thesis: Signatures of strong-field gravity at the photon ring
Research interests: General relativity and black holes, relativistic astrophysics, holography
Sahaja Kanuri
Office N.6.206
email: Sahaja.Kanuri[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Stéphane Detournay
Thesis: Decoding the black hole photon ring: from black hole images to fundamental physics, and back
Research interests:
Lorenzo Küchler
Office N.6.203
email: Lorenzo.Kuchler[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Geoffrey Compère & Thomas Hertog (KUL)
Thesis: Aspects of gravitational waves and black holes
Research interests: General relativity, gravitational waves, black holes, extreme-mass-ratio inspirals
Ludovico Machet
Office O.6.202
email: Ludovico.Machet[at]ulb.be / ludovico.machet[at]kuleuven.be
Supervised by Thomas Hertog (KULeuven) & Geoffrey Compère (ULB)
Thesis: Fundamental Physics with LISA
Research interests: Gravitational Waves, Dark Matter, Discrete Quantum Gravity, Causal Set Theory
Louan Mol
Office N.6.206
email: Louan.Mol[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Andrès Collinucci & co-supervised by Riccardo Argurio
Research interests: Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, Supersymmetry, Dualities, Strong Coupling, Vacuum Manifolds
Antoine Somerhausen
Office N.7.204
email: Antoine.Somerhausen[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Stéphane Detournay
Colin Sterckx
Office O.6.107
email: Colin.Sterckx[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Riccardo Argurio
Wendi Tan
Office N.7.201
email: Wendi.Tan[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Glenn Barnich
Romain Vandepopeliere
Office N.7.204
email: Romain.Vandepopeliere[at]ulb.be
Quentin Vandermiers
Office N.7.205
email: Quentin.Vandermiers[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Stéphane Detournay
Thesis: Black holes microscopic properties and 2-dimensional field theories
Research interests: Black holes , BH entropy, holography
MASTER STUDENTS
AFFILIATED SCIENTISTS
Jay Armas
Office
email: jarmas[at]ulb.ac.be
Nicolas Boulanger
Office (ULB) O.6.216
UMONS: Unit "Physics of the Universe, Fields and Gravitation"
email: Nicolas.Boulanger[at]umons.ac.be
Research interests: Higher-spin gauge theories, quantization of gauge systems and (hidden) symmetries in gravity
Andrea Campoleoni
Office 0.6.210
email: Andrea.Campoleoni[at]umons.ac.be
UMONS: Unit "Physics of the Universe, Fields and Gravitation"
Research interests: High-spin gauge theories, gravitational theories in three space-time dimensions, holography.
Nathalie Deruelle
Office N.7.202
email: deruelle[at]ihes.fr
Research interests: General Relativity, gravitational radiation, cosmology
Gaston Giribet
Office
email: gaston[at]df.uba.ar
Alexander Sevrin
email: Alexandre.Sevrin[at]vub.be
Head of the department of physics and astronomy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Guest professor at the Universities of Antwerp and Leuven
Deputy Director of the International Solvay Institutes
Research interests: Strategic Research Program "High-Energy Physics"
SECRETARIES
Fabienne DE NEYN
Office O.6.108
email: Fabienne.De.Neyn[at]ulb.be
Tel: +32 (0)2 650 58 16
Hélène KAJIANIS
Office O.6.208
email: Helene.Kajianis[at]ulb.be
Tel: +32 (0)2 650 55 83
Delphine VANTIGHEM
Office O.6.207
email: Delphine.Vantighem[at]ulb.be
Tel: +32 (0)2 650 57 77
