ZAFFARONI ALBERTO

Role
Full Professor  
Academic disciplines
Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions, Models, Mathematical Methods and Applications (PHYS-02/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
THEORETICAL PHYSICS OF FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS, MODELS, MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND APPLICATIONS (02/PHYS-02)
Email
[email protected]
Office phone
0264482511
Room:
  • U02, Floor: 5, Room: 5011

Biography

Position: Full Professor, University of Milano-Bicocca.

Academic degrees:

- Laurea magna cum laude Universita' di Milano, 1991.  Supervisor: Prof. Luciano Girardello.
- Ph. D in Physics, SISSA/ISAS, Trieste, 1994. Supervisors: prof. Pietro Fre' (SISSA) e Luciano Girardello (Milano).

Main past affiliations:

- Post-doctoral fellow at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France (1994-1995).
- Post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1995-1997).
- Post-doctoral fellow at the Theory Division at CERN, Geneva (1997-1999).
- INFN researcher (1999-2001 - temporary position).
- Associate Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca (2001).
- Full Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca (2016).

Awards and honors:

- SIGRAV prize 2000 (Societa' Italiana di Relativita' Generale e Gravitazione)

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Research

Research interest:

- Quantum Field Theories.
- Quantum Gravity.
- Gauge Theories and String Theories, in particular their non-perturbative properties.

 

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Publications

  • Porrati, M., Zaffaroni, A. (2025). A universal feature for the Higgs phenomenon in Anti de Sitter space. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. A, MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL, 58(3) [10.1088/1751-8121/ad9e59]. Detail

  • Hosseini, S., Zaffaroni, A. (2025). I-extremization for AdS4 black holes: master volume, free energy, and baryonic charges. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2025(8) [10.1007/JHEP08(2025)100]. Detail

  • Hosseini, S., Zaffaroni, A. (2025). I -Extremization with Baryonic Charges. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 134(19) [10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.191601]. Detail

  • Mekareeya, N., Zaffaroni, A. (2024). D-branes for gauge theories. In C. Bambi, L. Modesto, I. Shapiro (a cura di), Handbook of Quantum Gravity (pp. 2901-2961). Springer Nature [10.1007/978-981-99-7681-2_61]. Detail

  • Martelli, D., Zaffaroni, A. (2024). Equivariant localization and holography. LETTERS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, 114(1 (February 2024)) [10.1007/s11005-023-01752-1]. Detail

Full list

Research projects

PNRR per la Missione 4, componente 2 Investimento 1.1- Avviso 104/2022 | Quantum Gravity from Strong Coupling Dynamics
Year: 2022
Call: Bando PRIN 2022
Grantors: MINISTERO DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA (MUR)
Supersymmetry Breaking with Fields, Strings and Branes
Year: 2017
Call: PRIN 2017
Grantors: M.I.U.R. - MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE, DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA
Simmetrie dell'Universo e delle Interazioni Fondamentali
Year: 2010
Call: 2010-066 - PRIN 2009
Campi di gauge, stringhe e dualita'
Year: 2007
Call: 2007-027 - Prin 2007

Awards

Awards

  • Premio SIGRAV, Società Italiana di Relatività Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione (SIGRAV), 2000

Editorial boards

  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2020
  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - SCIPOST PHYSICS, 2020

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program committee - eurostrings 2023(Spagna), 2023
  • Partecipazione al comitato organizzativo - Supersymmetric Black Holes, Holography and Microstate Counting(Stati Uniti), 2022
  • Program committee - eurostrings 2022(Francia), 2022
  • Partecipazione al comitato organizzativo - Quiver, Calabi-Yau three-folds and DT invariants(Francia), 2022

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