Group IV - Theoretical Physics

EC Training Networks:

• • 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)

• EC MSCA fellowships:
  • CosmoBubbles – Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022/26 supervisor: F. D’Eramo)
  • HigherSpinCFT –  Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024/26 supervisor: D. Sorokin)
    

  • AxiTools – Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023/24 supervisor: L. Di Luzio)

• PNRR:
  •  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)
• National PRIN:
  • “BROWSEPOL: Beyond standaRd mOdel With coSmic microwavE background POLarization” (2023/25 PI N. Bartolo)
  • “Effective quantum gravity” (2023/25, PI G. Dall’Agata)
  • “Understanding Quantum Field Theory through its deformations” (2023/25, PI A. Sfondrini)
  • 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)
  • “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 (participantsPD))
  • “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 – Italian Space Agency
  • ASI-LiteBIRD Addendum (2024/25, Unit Leader S. Matarrese)
• CARIPARO Foundation Projects:
  • “New Tools for String Theory” (2024/27, PI A. Sfondrini)
• CARIPLO Foundation Projects:
  • Supporting Young Italian Talents – “New foundations for string theory” (2023/25, PI A. Sfondrini)
• University Projects:

  • STARS-CoG “CPV-Axion: Discovering the CP-violating axion” (2022/24, PI: L. Di Luzio)

  • STARS “ThermoComplex” (2022/24, PI: Gianmaria Falasco)

  • STARS “A new exact approach to holography” (2022/24, PI A. Sfondrini)

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

  • MSCA Seal of Excellence @UniPD ACROGAL (2021/24, PI: M. Mapelli)

  • BIRD “Ultracold Atoms in Curved Geometries” (2022/24, PI: L Salasnich)

  • 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)

  • BIRD “Beyond network structure: probing dynamics’ robustness of complex interconnected systems to functional shocks” (2023/24 PI  M. De Domenico)