Current activities

Winter 2024: Top-down holography in asymptotically flat spacetimes (Munich, Germany)

Working through the relevant literature on topological string theory, twistor theory, twisted holography.
In progress.

Summer-Fall 2023: Integrability in quantum field theories (Padova, Italy & remote)

Joining Prof. Alessandro Sfondrini (Padova/IAS Princeton) and Dr. Davide Polvara to work integrabilty in AdS/CFT. Specifically, formulating the Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz equations for strings propagating on mixed RR/NS-NS backgrounds in AdS₃. Publication of our results expected at the beginning of 2024.

Past activities

Winter-Spring 2023: Part III essay, BMS symmetries of Gravitational Scattering (Cambridge, UK)

In the 1960s, the study of the propagation of gravitational waves led Bondi, Metzner, Sachs and the likes to explicitly construct the group of symmetries of asymptotically flat spacetimes. Their findings paved the way for further investigations of the infrared structure of not only gravity, but also other gauge theories, and proved to be a mainstay of the celestial holography initiative. In my essay (Cambridge's equivalent of a master thesis), I follow their path and construct the asymptotic symmetry group of four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes: the BMS group. I then study its implications in the context of gravitational scattering, showcasing the rich structure of gravity at large distances. This work was carried out under the guidance of Dr. Prahar Mitra and then expanded into a review article.

Summer 2022: Particle physics at CERN, CMS experiment (Meyrin, Switzerland)

I had the chance to join the High-Energy Physics Group of ETH Zürich (CMS collaboration, CERN) to carry out a project under the supervision of Dr. Simone Pigazzini. Together with Noah Roux, I studied the properties of the early prototype of the upgraded electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment with a class IV laser. In parallel, we also wrote a Python package to automate the analysis of events. This work is to be incorporated in the future CMS experiment the in the upcoming years in the frame the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC.

Fall 2021: LIFE space mission, Exoplanets & Habitability Group, ETHZ (Zurich, Switzerland)

The Large Interferometer for Exoplanets space mission aims at detecting and characterizing the atmospheres of hundreds of nearby extrasolar planets by means of a mid-infrared nulling interferometer concept. Under the supervision of Prof. Sascha Quanz and Felix Dannert, I implemented the phenomenon of imperfect nulling into the mission simulation software, and quantified its impact on the detection yield. Here is my project report.