Francesca Vidotto
Born (1980-11-22) November 22, 1980
Treviso, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Padova
Known forSpinfoam Cosmology
Planck stars
Scientific career
FieldsLoop Quantum Gravity

Francesca Vidotto (born November 22, 1980) is an Italian theoretical physicist.

Biography

She earned her UG/MA in theoretical physics at the University of Padova and the PhD as double-degree at the University of Pavia and the Aix-Marseille Université. Afterwards she was a postdoc researcher at the universities of Grenoble, Nijmegen and Bilbao.[1] She was awarded a Rubicon (2012) and a Veni (2014) fellowship by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.[2]

Since 2019 she is an Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Foundations of Physics. She is also a core member of Western's Rotman Institute of Philosophy.[3]

Her research explores the quantum aspects of the gravitational field, in the framework of Loop Quantum Gravity. Her work covers topics from the cosmological and astrophysical applications of quantum gravity to the reflections on the nature of space-time and the foundations of quantum mechanics. She is best known for two research directions: Spin foam Cosmology, and Planck stars, with special emphasis on white holes and black hole remnants.

Publications

Scientific book

  • Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity: An elementary introduction (with Carlo Rovelli), Cambridge University Press, 2015.[4]

Main scientific papers

[5]

  • Primordial Fluctuations from Quantum Gravity (with Francesco Gozzini), 2019.[6]
  • Quantum insights on Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter, 2018.[7]
  • Planck stars (with Carlo Rovelli), 2014.[8]
  • Maximal acceleration in covariant loop gravity and singularity resolution (with Carlo Rovelli), 2013.[9]
  • Towards spinfoam cosmology (with Eugenio Bianchi and Carlo Rovelli), 2010.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Francesca Vidotto on inspirehep.net
  2. ↑ NWO page of the Rubicon and Veni projects.
  3. ↑ Francesca Vidotto Resumé.
  4. ↑ Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity: An elementary introduction on cambridge.org/core/books
  5. ↑ on inspire.net
  6. ↑ Primordial Fluctuations from Quantum Gravity in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 7, 118
  7. ↑ Quantum insights on Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter in PoS(EDSU2018)046
  8. ↑ Planck stars in the International Journal of Modern Physics D 23 (12), 1442026 240 2014
  9. ↑ Maximal acceleration in covariant loop gravity and singularity resolution in Physical Review Letters, 111.091303
  10. ↑ Towards spinfoam cosmology in Physical Review D 82 (8), 084035


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