Group IV - Theoretical Physics

FIS Starting PI: “Primordial Black Holes in the Gravitational-Wave Era” (2026/31, PI: Gabriele Franciolini)

FIS Starting “Topological calculus for fields, strings and gravity” (2026/31, PI: Fabio Apruzzi)

FIS Consolidator “QAXION – Probing the QCD axion via strong interactions” (2026/29 PI: Luca di Luzio)

FIS Starting “ASTRA – Axions and Dark Sectors: Tests on EaRth and from Astrophysics” (2025/28, PI: Edoardo Vitagliano)

FIS Starting “ADAPTSYS – Criticality and adaptation of human-made physical systems to fluctuating natural physical systems” (2024/29, PI: Manlio De Domenico)

Hidden (Horison 2020 ETN, 2020/26, Local PI: S. Rigolin)

COST Association Action “Fundamental Challenges in Theoretical Physics” 2023/27 (Action Chair & Grant Holder Scientific Representative A. Sfondrini)

CosmoBubbles – Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022/26 supervisor: F. D’Eramo)

HigherSpinCFT –  Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024/26 supervisor: D. Sorokin)

National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing – Spoke 8 “In-silico Medicine & Omics Data” (2022/25, Team Member A. Trovato)

CN5, Spoke 3 (NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY FUTURE CENTER – NBFC) “ASSESSING AND MONITORING TERRESTRIAL AND FRESHWATER BIODIVERSITY AND ITS EVOLUTION: FROM TAXONOMY TO GENOMICS AND CITIZEN SCIENCE” (2022/25,  Affiliated S. Azaele, A. Maritan (PD))

PNC0000002, DARE “Digital Lifelong Prevention” (2023/26, PD Member S. Samir)

PNRR CLIMEPI “Integrating network science and explainable AI to forecast the impact of climate change on infectious disease risk” (2023/25 PI M. De Domenico)

“BROWSEPOL: “Beyond standaRd mOdel With coSmic microwavE background POLarization” (2023/25 PI N. Bartolo)

“Effective quantum gravity” (2023/25, PI G. Dall’Agata)

MUS4GM2: “Muon Scattering for G-2” (2023/2025, PI: F. Piccini, Responsabile Locale: R. Gröber)

“Understanding Quantum Field Theory through its deformation” (2023/25, PI A. Sfondrini)

“Learning Early Universe Physics with Galaxy Survey and Gravitational Wave Data” (2023/25 PI M. Liguori)

“AxionOrigins: towards a complete theory for the origin of the axion” (2023/25 PI L. Di Luzio)

“Emergent Dynamical Patterns of Disordered Systems with Applications to Natural  Communities” (2023/25 PI Amos Maritan)

“Fickian non-Gaussian diffusion in static and dynamic environments” (2023/25  PI: R. Pastore (NA); F. Baldovin, F. Seno (participants PD))

“Selective Capture Of metals by Polymeric spongEs (SCOPE)” (2023/25, PI  E. Locatelli)

“Emergent Dynamical Patterns of Disordered Systems with Applications to Natural Communities” (2023/25; PI A. Maritan)

“The physics of chromosome folding” (2023/25,  PI M. Nicodemi (NA), Local Coordinator  E. Orlandini (PD))

“Anchialos: diversity, function, and resilience of Italian coastal aquifers upon global climatic change” (2023/25, Local Coordinator S. Samir (PD))

ASI-LiteBIRD Addendum (2024/25, Unit Leader S. Matarrese)

“New Tools for String Theory” (2024/27, PI A. Sfondrini)

Supporting Young Italian Talents – “New foundations for string theory” (2023/25, PI A. Sfondrini)

STARS Grant “GRASBH – The gravitational path integral, supersymmetric black holes and higher-derivative corrections”, (2026/28, PI: Alejandro Ruipérez)

STARS-CoG: “HiggsPairs: Precise theoretical Predictions for Higgs Pair Production at the LHC” (2024/2026 PI: R. Gröber)

STARS-CoG “GENSYMSTR – Generalised Symmetries from Strings and Branes” (01-09-24/26 PI F. Apruzzi)

BIRD “Temperature fluctuations in Nonequilibrium Systems” (2024/26 PI: Gianmaria Falasco)

BIRD “Response theory for brain network discovery and control” (2023/25 PI S. Samir)