FACULTY 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: Gravitation, fundamental physics, black holes, gravitational waves, asymptotic symmetries, memory effects
Personal web page
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
Chiara Toldo
Joining in May 2025
Research interests: string theory, general relativity, holography, black holes and their microstate counting, quantum field theory and supersymmetric localization, models of low dimensional gravity (such as Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity) and chaos, holographic/path integral approaches to de Sitter
POSTDOCS
Soumyadeep Chaudhuri
Office: O.6.201
email: Soumyadeep.Chaudhuri[at]ulb.be
Mario De Marco
Office O.6.117
email: Mario.De.Marco[at]ulb.be
Sudipta Dutta
Office O.6.117
email:
Giovanni Galati
Office O.6.111
email: Giovanni.Galati[at]ulb.be
Sk Jahanur Hoque
Office O.6.212
email: jahanur.hoque[at]utf.mff.cuni.cz
Lorenzo Iacobacci
Office O.6.111
email: lorenzoiacobacci[at]gmail.com
Long-term visiting researcher
Kévin Nguyen
Office O.6.117
email: Kevin.Nguyen2[at]ulb.be
Personal web page
Gabriel Andres Piovano
Office O.6.117
email:
Jakob Salzer
Office O.6.204
email: Jakob.Salzer[at]ulb.be
Stathis Vitouladitis
Office O.6.203
email: stathis.vitouladitis[at]ulb.be
PhD STUDENTS
Adrien Arbalestrier
Office N.6.101
email: Adrien.Arbalestrier[at]ulb.be
Gonzalo Barriga
Office N6.206
email: Gonzalo.Barriga[at]ulb.be
Augustin Basilavecchia
Office N6.206
email: Augustin.Basilavecchia[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Glenn Barnich
Thesis: Discrete light-cone quantization for field theories and gravity
Emilie Despontin
Office N.7.103
email: Emilie.Despontin[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Stéphane Detournay
José Pablo Figueroa Silva
Office N.6.206
email: Jose.Figueroa.Silva[at]ulb.be
Co-supervised by Stéphane Detournay (ULB - Belgium) & Julio Oliva (UdeC - Chile)
Thesis: Black hole entropy beyond AdS/CFT
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
Loïc Honet
Office N.6.203
email: Loic.Honet[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Geoffrey Compère
Elise Paznokas
Office N.6.101
email: Elise.Paznokas[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Riccardo Argurio
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
Louan Mol
Office O.6.102
email: Louan.Mol[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Andrès Collinucci & co-supervised by Riccardo Argurio
Sébastien Robert
Office N.7.103
email: Sebastien.Robert[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Geoffrey Compère
Master thesis: Definition of quadrupole in general relativity
Thomas Smoes
Office N.7.204
email: Thomas.Smoes[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Stéphane Detournay
Wendi Tan
Office N.7.201
email: Wendi.Tan[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Glenn Barnich
Romain Vandepopeliere
Office O.6.102
email: Romain.Vandepopeliere[at]ulb.be
Supervided by Riccardo Argurio
MASTER STUDENTS
Giovanni Boldi
Office N.7.104
email: giovanni.boldi[at]studenti.unimi.it
Supervised by Glenn Barnich
Thesis-abroad scholarship from University of Milan
Master thesis: Carroll scalar fields and their fundamental differences from usual scalar fields
Giovanni Spinielli
Office N.7.104
email: giovanni.spinielli[at]ulb.be
Supervised by Stéphane Detournay
Master thesis: Carrollian approach to fermion scattering
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
Adrien Druart
Office N.6.206
email: Adrien.Druart[at]ulb.be
Research interests: General relativity, gravitational waves, classical black holes, self-force and radiation reaction in general relativity, extreme mass-ratio inspirals
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 Programme: High-Energy Physics at the VUB
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
