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I am an expert of field theories on noncommutative spacetimes, quantum gravity phenomenology and General Relativity. I am the leading expert of a new theory of gravity named “Shape Dynamics”, having given decisive contributions to the theory, and single-authored the only monography on the subject ["Shape Dynamics: Relativity and Relationalism", Oxford University Press] in 2018. I have published 36 peer-reviewed papers (29 of which in first-quartile journals, including 3 Phys. Rev. Lett, 6 Phys. Lett. B, 1 Nucl. Phys. B, 9 Phys. Rev. D, 1 JCAP, 1 Europhys. Lett., 3 Eur. Phys. J. ), attracting 1269 citations (Google Scholar, Hirsch number 22), 7 conference proceedings, two essays as book chapters, and one single-author book. I have given 24 seminars at international conferences (11 as invited speaker), and I was invited 28 times to international research centres to give a seminar (including three colloquia). I have single-handedly organized 3 conferences and participated in the organization of another 3. I have research-led teaching experience, having taught 3 joint courses and acted as teaching assistant for one course. Finally, I have supervised 11 Master, one Bachelor and one PhD theses.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Flavio Mercati

Citation names

  • Mercati, Flavio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0319-7264-A96F
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3981-1914

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+39) 3201538104 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Dip. di Fisica “E. Pancini”, Via Cinthia, 80126 , Napoli, Napoli, Italy (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Particles and Fields Physics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2007/10/01 - 2011/02/18
Concluded
 Theoretical Physics (Doctor of Philosophy)
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
"A perspective on the theory and phenomenology of quantum spacetimes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2005/10/01 - 2007/09/28
Concluded
 Fisica (Laurea Specialistica)
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
"Noether analysis for field theory in kappa-Minkowski noncommutative spacetime" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2002/01/10 - 2005/11/02
Concluded
 Fisica (Bachelor)
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
"Extra dimensions and deviations from Newton's law" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/01/01 - Current Postdoctoral fellow (assegnista di ricerca) Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2016/08/01 - 2018/08/01 Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi, Italy
2012/01/10 - 2016/08/01 Templeton Frontiers Postdoctoral Fellow Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
2012/01/01 - 2012/07/01 Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow University of Nottingham School of Mathematical Sciences, United Kingdom
2010/10/01 - 2011/12/31 Postdoctoral Fellow Universidad de Zaragoza Departamento de Física Teórica, Spain
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/10/01 - 2019 $ 10 600 FQXi minigrant for conference organization
FQXi-MGA-1814
Principal investigator
Foundational Questions Institute, United States
Concluded
2017/10/01 - 2018/02/01 $ 10 500 FQXi minigrant for conference organization
FQXi-MGB-1629/160
Principal investigator
Foundational Questions Institute, United States
Concluded
2013/10/01 - 2016/09/30 $ 312 500 `Templeton Frontiers Fellowship'
15722
Research Fellow
John Templeton Foundation, United States
Concluded
2013/09/01 - 2015/08/31 $ 139 650 grant `Information, Complexity and the Arrow of Time in Shape Dynamics'
FQXi-RFP3-1339
Principal investigator
Concluded
2015 - 2015 $ 2 000 FQXi minigrant to fund book writing
FQXi-MGA-1507
Principal investigator
Foundational Questions Institute, United States
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2012/07/01 € 7 740 Travel grant from Sapienza University to visit Nottingham University
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Research Fellow
University of Nottingham School of Mathematical Sciences, United Kingdom
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Mercati, Flavio. Shape Dynamics: Relativity and Relationalism. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. 2018.
Book chapter
  1. Mercati, Flavio. "U-Turn or U Die". In How Should Humanity Steer the Future?, 145-157. Springer International Publishing, 2015.
    10.1007/978-3-319-20717-9_14
  2. Gryb, Sean; Mercati, Flavio. "Right About Time?". In Questioning the Foundations of Physics, 87-102. Springer International Publishing, 2015.
    10.1007/978-3-319-13045-3_6
Conference paper
  1. Mercati, Flavio. "Localizability in kappa-Minkowski Spacetime". Paper presented in PAFT 2019, Current problems in theoretical physics, 2019.
    Accepted
  2. Mercati, Flavio. "Shape dynamics and AdS/CFT". Paper presented in Loops13, Madrid, 2012.
    10.1088/1742-6596/360/1/012062
  3. Mercati, Flavio. "Sensitivity to Planck scale effects in cold atom experiments". Paper presented in The Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, 2012.
    10.1142/9789814374552_0499
  4. Sitarz, Andrzej; Mercati, Flavio. "kappa-Minkowski differential calculi and star product". Paper presented in Corfu Summer Institute on Elementary Particles and Physics - Workshop on Non Commutative Field Theory and Gravity, 2010.
    10.22323/1.127.0030
  5. Amelino-Camelia, G.; Loret, N.; Mercati, F.; Macias, A,; Maceda, M.. "Quantum-Gravity Phenomenology of soft ultraviolet/infrared mixing". Paper presented in RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GRAVITATION AND BEC’S PHENOMENOLOGY: IV Mexican Meeting on Experimental and Theoretical Physics: Symposium on Gravitation BEC’s Phenomenology, 2010.
    10.1063/1.3531640
  6. Amelino-Camelia, G.; Gubitosi, G.; Mercati, F.. "On the theory and phenomenology of spacetime symmetries at the Planck scale". Paper presented in 2nd Stueckelberg Workshop on Relativistic Field Theories, Pescara, Italy, 3–8 September 2007, 2007.
    10.1142/S0217751X08040019
  7. Amelino-Camelia, G.; Gubitosi, G.; Marcianó, A.; Martinetti, P.; Mercati, F.; Pranzetti, D.; Tacchi, R.A.. "First results of the Noether theorem for Hopf-algebra spacetime symmetries". Paper presented in 21st Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Symposium "Noncommutative geometry and quantum spacetime in physics", 2007.
Journal article
  1. Mercati, Flavio. "Through the Big Bang in inflationary cosmology". Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2019 10 (2019): 025-025. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/10/025.
    10.1088/1475-7516/2019/10/025
  2. Lizzi, Fedele; Manfredonia, Mattia; Mercati, Flavio; Poulain, Timothé. "Localization and reference frames in kappa-Minkowski spacetime". Physical Review D 99 8 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.99.085003.
    10.1103/physrevd.99.085003
  3. Flavio Mercati; Matteo Sergola. "Light cone in a quantum spacetime". Physics Letters B 787 (2018): 105-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.10.031.
    10.1016/j.physletb.2018.10.031
  4. Mercati, Flavio; Sergola, Matteo. "Pauli-Jordan function and scalar field quantization in kappa-Minkowski noncommutative spacetime". Physical Review D 98 4 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.98.045017.
    10.1103/physrevd.98.045017
  5. Flavio Mercati; Matteo Sergola. "Physical constraints on quantum deformations of spacetime symmetries". Nuclear Physics B 933 (2018): 320-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2018.06.014.
    10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2018.06.014
  6. Ballesteros, Angel; Mercati, Flavio. "Extended noncommutative Minkowski spacetimes and hybrid gauge symmetries". The European Physical Journal C 78 8 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6097-1.
    10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6097-1
  7. Tim A. Koslowski; Flavio Mercati; David Sloan. "Through the big bang: Continuing Einstein's equations beyond a cosmological singularity". Physics Letters B 778 (2018): 339-343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.01.055.
    10.1016/j.physletb.2018.01.055
  8. Loret, Niccoló; Meljanac, Stjepan; Mercati, Flavio; Pikutic, Danijel. "Vectorlike deformations of relativistic quantum phase-space and relativistic kinematics". International Journal of Modern Physics D 26 11 (2017): 1750123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218271817501231.
    10.1142/s0218271817501231
  9. Meljanac, Stjepan; Meljanac, Daniel; Mercati, Flavio; Pikutic, Danijel. "Noncommutative spaces and Poincaré symmetry". Physics Letters B 766 (2017): 181-185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.01.006.
    10.1016/j.physletb.2017.01.006
  10. Mercati, Flavio; Gomes, Henrique; Koslowski, Tim; Napoletano, Andrea. "Gravitational collapse of thin shells of dust in asymptotically flat shape dynamics". Physical Review D 95 4 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.044013.
    10.1103/physrevd.95.044013
  11. Mercati, Flavio. "On the fate of Birkhoff’s theorem in Shape Dynamics". General Relativity and Gravitation 48 10 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10714-016-2134-2.
    10.1007/s10714-016-2134-2
  12. Guariento, Daniel C.; Mercati, Flavio. "Cosmological self-gravitating fluid solutions of shape dynamics". Physical Review D 94 6 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.94.064023.
    10.1103/physrevd.94.064023
  13. Mercati, Flavio. "Quantum kappa-deformed differential geometry and field theory". International Journal of Modern Physics D 25 05 (2016): 1650053. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s021827181650053x.
    10.1142/s021827181650053x
  14. Gomes, Henrique; Gryb, Sean; Koslowski, Tim; Mercati, Flavio; Smolin, Lee. "A shape dynamical approach to holographic renormalization". The European Physical Journal C 75 1 (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3238-z.
    10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3238-z
  15. Barbour, Julian; Koslowski, Tim; Mercati, Flavio. "Identification of a Gravitational Arrow of Time". Physical Review Letters 113 18 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.113.181101.
    10.1103/physrevlett.113.181101
  16. Barbour, Julian; Koslowski, Tim; Mercati, Flavio. "The solution to the problem of time in shape dynamics". Classical and Quantum Gravity 31 15 (2014): 155001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/31/15/155001.
    10.1088/0264-9381/31/15/155001
  17. Gubitosi, Giulia; Mercati, Flavio. "Relative locality in kappa-Poincaré". Classical and Quantum Gravity 30 14 (2013): 145002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/30/14/145002.
    10.1088/0264-9381/30/14/145002
  18. Barbour, Julian; Lostaglio, Matteo; Mercati, Flavio. "Scale anomaly as the origin of time". General Relativity and Gravitation 45 5 (2013): 911-938. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10714-013-1516-y.
    10.1007/s10714-013-1516-y
  19. Gryb, Sean; Mercati, Flavio. "2+1 gravity on the conformal sphere". Physical Review D 87 6 (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.87.064006.
    10.1103/physrevd.87.064006
  20. Gomes, Henrique; Gryb, Sean; Koslowski, Tim; Mercati, Flavio. "The gravity/CFT correspondence". The European Physical Journal C 73 1 (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2275-3.
    10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2275-3
  21. Carmona, J. M.; Cortés, J. L.; Mercati, F.. "Relativistic kinematics beyond special relativity". Physical Review D 86 8 (2012): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.86.084032.
    10.1103/physrevd.86.084032
  22. Amelino-camelia, Giovanni; Gubitosi, Giulia; Loret, Niccoló; Mercati, Flavio; Rosati, Giacomo. "Weakness of accelerator bounds on departures from Lorentz symmetry for the electron". EPL (Europhysics Letters) 99 2 (2012): 21001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/99/21001.
    10.1209/0295-5075/99/21001
  23. AMELINO-CAMELIA, GIOVANNI; LORET, NICCOLÒ; MANDANICI, GIANLUCA; MERCATI, FLAVIO. "UV and IR quantum-spacetime effects for the Chandrasekhar model". International Journal of Modern Physics D 21 06 (2012): 1250052. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218271812500526.
    10.1142/s0218271812500526
  24. MARTINETTI, PIERRE; MERCATI, FLAVIO; TOMASSINI, LUCA. "Minimal length in quantum space and integration of the line element in noncommutative geometry". Reviews in Mathematical Physics 24 05 (2012): 1250010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0129055x12500109.
    10.1142/s0129055x12500109
  25. AMELINO-CAMELIA, GIOVANNI; GUBITOSI, GIULIA; LORET, NICCOLÓ; MERCATI, FLAVIO; ROSATI, GIACOMO; LIPARI, PAOLO. "Opera-reassessing data on the energy dependence of the speed of neutrinos". International Journal of Modern Physics D 20 14 (2011): 2623-2640. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218271811020780.
    10.1142/s0218271811020780
  26. Carmona, J. M.; Cortés, J. L.; Mazón, D.; Mercati, F.. "Locality and the relativity principle beyond special relativity". Physical Review D 84 8 (2011): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.84.085010.
    10.1103/physrevd.84.085010
  27. Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni; Matassa, Marco; Mercati, Flavio; Rosati, Giacomo. "Taming Nonlocality in Theories with Planck-Scale Deformed Lorentz Symmetry". Physical Review Letters 106 7 (2011): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.106.071301.
    10.1103/physrevlett.106.071301
  28. AMELINO-CAMELIA, GIOVANNI; LORET, NICCOLÒ; MANDANICI, GIANLUCA; MERCATI, FLAVIO. "Gravity in quantum space-time". International Journal of Modern Physics D 19 14 (2010): 2385-2392. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218271810018451.
    10.1142/s0218271810018451
  29. Jacob, Uri; Mercati, Flavio; Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni; Piran, Tsvi. "Modifications to Lorentz invariant dispersion in relatively boosted frames". Physical Review D 82 8 (2010): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.82.084021.
    10.1103/physrevd.82.084021
  30. Mercati, Flavio; Mazón, Diego; Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni; Carmona, José Manuel; Cortés, José Luis; Induráin, Javier; Lämmerzahl, Claus; Tino, Guglielmo M. "Probing the quantum-gravity realm with slow atoms". Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 21 (2010): 215003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/27/21/215003.
    10.1088/0264-9381/27/21/215003
  31. Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni; Gualtieri, Leonardo; Mercati, Flavio. "Threshold anomalies in Horava–Lifshitz-type theories". Physics Letters B 686 4-5 (2010): 283-287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2010.02.057.
    10.1016/j.physletb.2010.02.057
  32. Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni; Lämmerzahl, Claus; Mercati, Flavio; Tino, Guglielmo M.. "Constraining the Energy-Momentum Dispersion Relation with Planck-Scale Sensitivity Using Cold Atoms". Physical Review Letters 103 17 (2009): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.103.171302.
    10.1103/physrevlett.103.171302
  33. Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni; Gubitosi, Giulia; Mercati, Flavio. "Discreteness of area in noncommutative space". Physics Letters B 676 4-5 (2009): 180-183. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2009.04.045.
    10.1016/j.physletb.2009.04.045
  34. Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni; Gubitosi, Giulia; Marcianò, Antonino; Martinetti, Pierre; Mercati, Flavio. "A no-pure-boost uncertainty principle from spacetime noncommutativity". Physics Letters B 671 2 (2009): 298-302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2008.12.032.
    10.1016/j.physletb.2008.12.032
  35. Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni; Briscese, Fabio; Gubitosi, Giulia; Marcianò, Antonino; Martinetti, Pierre; Mercati, Flavio. "Noether analysis of the twisted Hopf symmetries of canonical noncommutative spacetimes". Physical Review D 78 2 (2008): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.78.025005.
    10.1103/physrevd.78.025005
  36. Stefani, Alessandro; Martorana, Alessandro; Bernardini, Sergio; Panella, Marta; Mercati, Flavio; Orlacchio, Antonio; Pierantozzi, Mariangela. "CSF markers in Alzheimer disease patients are not related to the different degree of cognitive impairment". Journal of the Neurological Sciences 251 1-2 (2006): 124-128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2006.09.014.
    10.1016/j.jns.2006.09.014
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/02/20 Introduction to noncommutative quantum field theory Quantum Information Theory Group Seminar
University College London (London, United Kingdom)
2020/02/05 Momentum spaces for kappa-Minkowski noncommutative spacetime Group Seminar
Universidad de Burgos (Burgos, Spain)
2019/10/04 Conference talk: "Review paper discussion" Kick-off meeting QGMM Cost Action
INSTITUT DE FISICA D'ALTES ENERGIES (Barcelona, Spain)
2019/09/21 Conference talk: "Kappa-deformed special relativity" Workshop on Quantum Geometry, Field Theory and Gravity
Corfu Summer Institute (Corfu, Greece)
2019/07/01 Conference talk: "The nature of observers in quantum gravity" Observers in quantum gravity II
University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy)
2019/05/19 Through the Big Bang Incontri Teorici
University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy)
2019/03/19 One-past-two-futures models of the universe Martes cuantico
Universidad de Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain)
2018/02/12 kappa-Poincaré invariant QFT and the light cone Group Seminar
University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy)
2018/01/22 Conference talk: "Observers in quantum gravity: introduction" Observers in quantum gravity
University of Rome La Sapienza (Rome, Italy)
2017/12/01 QFT on kappa-Minkowski noncommutative spacetime Group Seminar
Universidad de Burgos (Burgos, Spain)
2017/07/03 Conference talk: "Shape Dynamics: describing gravity with conformal 3-geometry" Loops 17
University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
2017/05/15 Conference talk: "Compact spherically symmetric solutions and gravitational collapse in SD" Shape Dynamics Workshop
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada)
2017/04/10 Conference talk: "Noncommutative field theory and quantum deformations of centrally extended algebras" Current Problems in Theoretical Physics
University of Naples and University of Salerno (Vietri sul Mare, Italy)
2017/02/06 Thin Shells International Shape Dynamics Seminar
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada)
2017/01/26 Fun with Noncommutative Differential Forms Group Seminar
University of Rome La Sapienza (Rome, Italy)
2016/12/16 Introduction to Shape Dynamics Group Seminar
Universidad de Burgos (Burgos, Spain)
2016/11/21 Conference talk: "Gravitational Collapse in SD: The Twin Shell Universe" Shape Dynamics Workshop
UNAM (Mexico City, Mexico)
2016/09/22 Noncommutative differential geometry and kappa-deformed field theory Group Seminar
Rudjer Boskovich Institute (Zagreb, Croatia)
2016/08/24 Conference talk: "Shape Dynamics @ different scales" Gravity @ all scale
University of Nottingham (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
2016/07/04 Conference talk: "Covariant ?-deformed field theory in the language of differential forms" Noncommutative geometry, quantum symmetries and quantum gravity II - XXXVII Max Born Symposium
Wroclaw University (Wroclaw, Poland)
2016/06/01 Noncommutative differential geometry and field theory Group Seminar
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada)
2016/03/30 Conference talk: "SD: a status report and a new result on the big-bang singularity" Shapes of Gravity
Radboud University Nijmegen (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
2016/03/03 Through the Big Bang Group Seminar
Radboud University Nijmegen (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
2015/07/20 Conference talk: "Entropy and the typicality of universes" Quantum Gravity Workshop
University of Rome La Sapienza (Rome, Italy)
2015/03/30 Conference talk: "A gravitational arrow of time" IberiCOS 2015
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Aranjuez, Spain)
2015/01/25 Doing Physics with Shape Dynamics Perimeter Institute Colloquium
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada)
2014/12/15 Shape Dynamics Group Seminar
Instituto de Física Teórica (Madrid, Spain)
2014/09/08 Conference talk: "A Gravitational Arrow of Time" Conceptual and Technical challenges for Quantum Gravity
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada)
2014/07/12 Conference talk: "Gravitational collapse in Shape Dynamics" XIV Marcel Grossmann meeting
University of Rome La Sapienza (Rome, Italy)
2014/06/25 Conference talk: "Welcomes and introduction" SD@Convergence
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada)
2014/05/02 Conference talk: "Shape Dynamics: an introduction and a status report" Atlantic GR 2014
University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, Canada)
2014/02/26 A la recherche du temps perdu Perimeter Institute Colloquium
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada)
2014/02/04 Shape Dynamics Group Seminar
LPSC (Grenoble, France)
2014/01/28 Shape Dynamics: an overview Group Seminar
APC (Paris, France)
2014/01/21 What is Shape Dynamics? Group Seminar
ENS Lyon (Lyon, France)
2013/12/06 A Gravitational Arrow of Time Group Seminar
UC Davis (Davis, United States)
2013/07/22 Conference talk: "The Arrow of Time, Complexity and Bulk Entropy in Gravity" Loops 13
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada)
2013/01/23 What is Motion? What is Time? Perimeter Institute Colloquium
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada)
2012/12/21 Quantum anomaly as the origin of time Group Seminar
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada)
2012/05/09 Conference talk: "Shape Dynamics: Relativity without Relativity" The conformal nature of the Universe
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada)
2012/02/28 Relativity without relativity Group Seminar
University of Nottingham (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
2011/11/21 Relative Locality, kappa-Poincaré and the Relativity Principle Group Seminar
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Waterloo, Canada)
2011/07/21 Conference talk: "Shape Dynamics and the Gravity/CFT correspondence" Loops 2011
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid, Spain)
2011/05/23 Conference talk: "Shape Dynamics and AdS/CFT" Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid, Spain)
2011/03/23 kappa-Poincaré and the relativity of locality Group Seminar
University of Nottingham (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
2010/05/13 Probing the quantum gravity realm with cold particles Group Seminar
UC Berkeley (Berkeley, United States)
2010/05/06 Conference talk: "IR/UV mixing and an anomaly with cold neutrons" Quantum Gravity Workshop
University of Rome La Sapienza (Rome, Italy)
2009/11/19 Generalizing the Noether theorem for field theories over noncommutative spacetimes Group Seminar
Imperial College (London, United Kingdom)
2009/11/18 Noncommutative spacetimes and quantum gravity phenomenology Group Seminar
University of Nottingham (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
2009/10/29 Probing the quantum-gravity realm with cold atoms ICRA seminar
University of Rome La Sapienza (Rome, Italy)
2009/07/12 Conference talk: "Sensitivity to Planck scale effects in cold atom experiments" XII Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity
ICRA (Paris, France)
2008/07/07 Conference talk: "A no-pure-boost uncertainty principle from space-time noncommutativity" Noncommutative deformations of special relativity
ICMS (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020/01/01 - Current Cosmological models evolving through the Big Bang
Supervisor of Martina Adamo
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2017/10/01 - 2020/03/31 Observers and momenta in kappa-Minkowski spacetime
Co-supervisor of Mattia Manfredonia
 Theoretical Physics (PhD)
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2019/01/01 - 2019/10/01 Relative locality of boosted source
Co-supervisor of Maria Grazia Di Luca
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2017/01/01 - 2017/10/01 Deforming The Spacetime Symmetries of Quantum Field Theory
Supervisor of Matteo Sergola
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2017/01/01 - 2017/10/01 Properties of some geometric operators in noncommutative spacetimes
Co-supervisor of Marco Sciannamea
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2014/01/01 - 2014/10/01 Black Holes in Shape Dynamics
Supervisor of Andrea Napoletano
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2014/01/01 - 2014/10/01 Homogeneous Cosmologies in Shape Dynamics
Supervisor of Mykola Murskyj
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
2014/01/01 - 2014/10/01 Relativity Without Relativity
Supervisor of Monica Rincon-Ramirez
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
2014/01/01 - 2014/07/01 The relational quantum 3-body problem
Supervisor of Matt Beach
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
2012/01/01 - 2012/10/01 Quantum anomaly as the origin of time
Supervisor of Matteo Lostaglio
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
2010/01/01 - 2010/10/01 Noether analysis of spinor/vector fields in noncommutative spacetimes
Co-supervisor of Isabella Malacari
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2010/01/01 - 2010/10/01 Interactions and Belinfante-Rosenfeld stress-energy tensor
Co-supervisor of Giacomo Rosati
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2010/01/01 - 2010/10/01 Modified dispersion relation in Chandrasekhar and TOV model
Co-supervisor of Niccolò Loret
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/01/01 - 2019/07/03 Sole organizer of the "Observers in Quantum Gravity II" workshop, founded with a grant ($10600) from the FQXi foundation and INFN (2019/07/01 - 2019/07/03) Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2018/01/22 - 2018/01/23 Sole organizer of the international workshop "Observers in Quantum Gravity", founded with a grant ($10500) from the FQXi foundation (2018/01/22 - 2018/01/23) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
2015/10/04 - 2015/10/10 Co-organizer - international workshop “SD pow-wow”, College Farm, Oxfordshire (2015/10/04 - 2015/10/10) Foundational Questions Institute, United States
2015/07/25 - 2015/07/26 Sole organizer - "SD@Convergence: A Shape Dynamics workshop", Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics; (2015/07/25 - 2015/07/26) Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
2013/07/22 - 2013/07/26 Co-organizer - Loops 2013 conference, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Parallel sessions "Quantum Gravity phenomenology and noncommutative geometry" and "Shape Dynamics and conformal approaches to Quantum Gravity" (2013/07/22 - 2013/07/26) Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
2010/05/06 - 2010/05/07 Co-organizer - "Quantum Gravity Workshop" (2010/05/06 - 2010/05/07) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2018/06/25 - 2018/06/28 Participation to “Philosophy of Quantum Field Theory” - XXI International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics, Urbino, Italy
Other
Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy
2010/09/25 - 2010/10/02 Participation to “Noncommutative geometry mini-school”, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Other
Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Matematyczny, Poland

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2019/03/01 - 2022/03/01 Working Group Leader of working group 2 "phenomenology" of COST Action CA 18108 - Quantum Gravity Phenomenology in the Multi Messenger approach (QGMM)
Member
 European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
2019/03/01 - 2022/03/01 Core group member and initial proposer of COST Action CA 18108 - Quantum Gravity Phenomenology in the Multi Messenger approach (QGMM)
Member
 European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/10/01 - 2020/02/01 Teaching of 25% of the "Introduction to quantum gravity" Master's degree course, principal teacher: prof. Giovanni Amelino-Camelia Introduction to Quantum Gravity (Laurea Specialistica) Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2019/01/01 - 2019/06/01 Teaching of 25% of the "General Relativity" Master's degree course, principal teacher: prof. Giovanni Amelino-Camelia General Relativity (Laurea Specialistica) Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2016/10/01 - 2017/03/01 Teaching of 25% of the "Introduction to quantum gravity" Master's degree course, principal teacher: prof. Giovanni Amelino-Camelia Introduction to Quantum Gravity (Master) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2013/09/25 - 2013/09/25 An introduction to Shape Dynamics, invited joint course with J. Barbour IHP Trimester summer school on Gravitation Astrophysics and Cosmology General Relativity (Doctor of Philosophy) Institut Henri Poincaré, France
2009/01/01 - 2009/01/06 General Physics course (teaching assistant) (Bachelor) Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie Charles Darwin, Italy
2006/01/01 - 2006/06/01 Scientific Programming (C language) course (tutoring) (Bachelor) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2005/01/01 - 2005/06/01 Scientific Programming (C language) course (tutoring) (Bachelor) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
2004/01/01 - 2004/06/01 Scientific Programming (C language) course (tutoring) (Bachelor) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2020/04/30 - 2020/04/30 Member of the PhD thesis committee of Javier Relancio
Member
 Universidad de Zaragoza Departamento de Física Teórica, Spain
2019/12/01 - 2020/02/20 Referee for "Marie Curie COFUND" grant applications, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Evaluator
 Université Libre de Bruxelles Département de Physique, Belgium
Distinctions

Award

2015 1st prize "Buchalter Cosmology Prize" ($10 000), paper PRL113, 181101, which the committee found "an insightful step towards showing that an arrow of time is a natural expectation in cosmology, rather than a feature that requires significant fine-tuning"
2014 Fourth prize ($ 1000) in the FQXi essay competition `How should humanity steer the future'. Title: "U-turn or u die"
2013 Editor’s choice article in Gen. Rel. Grav. Title of the paper: "Scale anomaly as the origin of Time"
2012 Fourth prize ($ 1000) in the FQXi essay competition `Questioning the foundations' Title of the essay: "Right about Time?"

Other distinction

2019 Shortlisted (selected as reserve) for a Ramon y Cajal tenure-track fellowship, Spanish Ministry of Education and Research, Spain
Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades, Spain
2018 Habilitation for Associate Professor, (acreditación Profesor Contratado/Ayudante Doctor) Spanish Ministry of Education and Research, Spain
Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación, Spain
2017 National Scientific Habilitation for Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics, Ministry of Education, University and Research, Italy
Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca, Italy
2017 Habilitation for Permanent Researcher in Theoretical Physics, Rudjer Boskovich Institute, Croatia
2017 Habilitation (idoneità) for Permanent Researcher in Applied Mathematics, Italy
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Area della Ricerca di Roma 1, Italy
2016 Winner of a 2-year "Juan de la Cierva Incorproración" postdoctoral fellowship, Spain (declined)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2014 Editor’s suggestion article in Phys. Rev. Lett. and Viewpoint from S. Carlip on ‘Physics’ for the paper ``Identification of a gravitational arrow of time''.
2010 Honorable mention for the essay competition of the Gravity Research Foundation Title of the essay: "Gravity in quantum spacetime"
2007 Winner of a 3-years PhD fellowship (declined)
Università degli Studi Roma Tre Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Italy