Dr. Piero Nicolini received his Ph.D. from the University of Bologna in 2002 and his German Habilitation from the Goethe University in 2013, as well as two other Full Professor Habilitations in Italy, in Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics. Prior to his current position in Trieste, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Marseille, Research Fellow and Head of the Classical and Quantum Gravity Group at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, and Visiting Associate Professor at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Dr. Nicolini is currently working on the spontaneous dimensional reduction of spacetime and on phenomena expected to have occurred in the early universe soon after the Big Bang.
Research Insterests
Quantum gravity and string theory
Black hole theory and cosmology
Exotic quantum field theory
Theoretical particle physics
Collaborators:
Bernard Carr (Queen Mary University London)
Patricio Gaete (University of Valparaiso)
Remo Garattini (University of Bergamo)
Robert Mann (University of Waterloo)
John Moffat (Perimeter Institute)
Jonas Mureika (Loyola Marymount University & Kavli Institute, UC Santa Barbara)
Douglas Singleton (CSU Fresno & Kavli Institute, UC Santa Barbara)
Euro Spallucci (INFN, Trieste)
Università degli studi di Trieste
