POSITIONS AND INSTITUTIONS
2 Nov 2023 - Present: Full Professor of Theoretical Physics of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna.
4 Sep 2017 - 1 Nov 2023: Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna.
1 Nov 2002 - 3 Sep 2017: Assistant Professor (tenured position
since 2005) of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University
of Bologna, with National
Scientific Abilitation for Full Professorship in
Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions awarded on 8 Jan
2014; and associated with a research assignment to the Group of
Theoretical Physics of the I.N.F.N., Sezione di Bologna.
1 Dec 2023 - present: member of AM^2 (Alma Mater center on Applied Mathematics)
12 Mar 2020 - 11 Mar 2026: Coordinator of the Bologna INFN Theory Group.
1 Jan 2023 - present: Internal Referee for Line 4 of INFN CSN4.
1 Jan 2014 - 11 Mar 2020: National coordinator of the
INFN-FLAG collaboration.
1 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2013: National coordinator of the
INFN-BO11 collaboration.
Jan - Jun 1996-97: visiting researcher in the Group of Theoretical Physics
of the University of Alabama (Prof. B.
Harms).
FIELDS OF INTEREST:
Semiclassical and quantum aspects of gravitational collapse,
cosmology and black holes; quantum theories of gravity.
GRANTS and NETWORKS
2014 - present: member of SIGRAV (in the steering committee from Sep 2022) and ISGRG
1 Jan - 31 Dec 2024: PI of RFO2010, 2015/16-2023, FFABR 2017.
2021 - present: member of divisions 1 and 2 of the Observational Science Board of the Einstein Telescope and of the ET-Bologna Research Unit
2022 - present: member of the EuCAPT consortium and programme RISE Asymmetry
2017 - present: member of INdAM and GNFM
2015 - present: member of the gravity division of EPS
2024 - oggi: membro del WG1 e WG3 della COST Action CA23115 Relativistic Quantum Information
2017 - 2019: member of WG1 and WG2 of the COST Action Cantata
2010 - 2014: member of WG1 of the COST Action MP0905 "Black holes in a violent universe"
1998-2000: NATO Collaborative Research Grant CRG 973052.
REFEREE
2018-2019: Outstanding referee for Classical and Quantum Gravity
2017: Outstanding referee for Physics Letters B
2019 - present: editor for Universe
BOOKS
J. Ovalle, R. Casadio, Beyond Einstein gravity: the MGD approach in the BW, Springer (2020)
Contributor in: "Quantum aspects of Black Holes", ed. X.
Calmet (Springer, 2014)
"Modified gravity and cosmology: an update from the CANTATA network", Ed. E. Saridakis et al (Springer, 2021)
"Dictionary of Geophysics, Astrophysics and Astronomy", R.
Matzner editor, CRC Press (2001)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
A.Y. 2023/24-2024/25: "General Relativity 1" for master students in Physics.
A.Y. 2019/20-2022/23: "General physics" (module 1) for undergraduate students in Mathematics.
A.Y. 2019/20-2024/25: "Quantum cosmology" for master students in Physics.
A.Y. 2016/17-2018/19: "Relativity Theory" for master students in Astrophysics.
A.Y. 2018/19-2024/25: "Elements of General Relativity Theory" for undergraduate in Physics.
A.Y. 2010/11-2017/18: "Elements of Relativity Theory" for undergraduate in Physics.
A.Y. 2015/16, 2017/18-2019/20: "Complements of Mathematical Methods" for undergraduate in Physics.
A.Y. 2014-15: "Quantum physics and gravity" for the Ph.D. school in Physics of the University of Bologna.
A.Y. 2007/08-2014/15: "Quantum field theory in curved space-time" for the Ph.D. school in Physics of the University of Bologna.
A.Y. 2002/03 - 2006/07: teaching assistant for the courses Quantum Mechanics I and II, Statistical Mechanics, Relativity I and II, for undergraduate students at the Department of Physics of the University of Bologna.
Fall term 2000: Introductory mini-course on Renormalization Group for graduate students (8 hours) at the Department of Physics of the University of Bologna.
Spring semester 1996 and 1997: teaching assistant at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
Students
PhD: Alessio Orlandi (2012), Andrea Giugno (2016), Andrea Giusti (2018), Michele Lenzi (2021), Wenbin Feng (2025).
MS: about 50
BS: about 70
EDUCATION
Ph.D. degree (3-year course):
15 Oct 1996: succesful Ph.D. thesis defense with a national
examining committee at the Department of Physics of the University
of Bologna.
Thesis: Aspetti quantistici nella fisica dei buchi neri
(Quantum aspects in the Physics of black holes)
University degree (4-year course):
21 Jul 1992, in Physics, at the University of Bologna, Italy (mark: 110/110 cum laude).
Thesis: Fase geometrica e fluttuazioni per un sistema
gravità -materia (Geometric phase and fluctuations in a
matter-gravity system)
