Francesca Vidotto
Francesca Vidotto | |
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| Born | November 22, 1980 Treviso, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Alma mater | University of Padova |
| Known for | Spinfoam Cosmology Planck stars |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Loop Quantum Gravity |
Francesca Vidotto (born November 22, 1980) is an Italian theoretical physicist.
Biography
[edit]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] She was a researcher at Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie and teaching assistant at Université J. Fourier in Grenoble, France (2011-2012). [3]
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 and associate director of Western's Rotman Institute of Philosophy.[4]
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. Since 2019, her main research interests have been cosmology, the quantum effect of black holes, and the foundations of quantum mechanics.[5]
Vidotto won the first prize (shared with Amanda Gefter) in the 2023 FQXi contest "How could science be different?" for her essay "How Could Science Be Different? Ask a feminist!". She is an advocate for equity, inclusion and diversity in the physics field.[6] She also believes philosophy and physics go hand in hand.[7]
Publications
[edit]Scientific book
[edit]- Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity: An elementary introduction (with Carlo Rovelli), Cambridge University Press, 2015.[8]
Main scientific papers
[edit]- Primordial Fluctuations from Quantum Gravity (with Francesco Gozzini), 2019.[10]
- Quantum insights on Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter, 2018.[11]
- Planck stars (with Carlo Rovelli), 2014.[12]
- Maximal acceleration in covariant loop gravity and singularity resolution (with Carlo Rovelli), 2013.[13]
- Towards spinfoam cosmology (with Eugenio Bianchi and Carlo Rovelli), 2010.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ Francesca Vidotto on inspirehep.net
- ^ NWO page of the Rubicon[1] and Veni[2] projects.
- ^ "Francesca Vidotto | Western University Canada - Academia.edu". westernu.academia.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ Francesca Vidotto Resumé.
- ^ "Francesca Vidotto, Assistant Professor". www.physics.uwo.ca. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ Fox, Deborah. "Francesca Vidotto". The Rotman Institute of Philosophy. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ Halley, Catherine (2020-05-29). "Francesca Vidotto: The Quantum Properties of Space-Time". JSTOR Daily. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
- ^ Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity: An elementary introduction on cambridge.org/core/books
- ^ [3] on inspire.net
- ^ Primordial Fluctuations from Quantum Gravity in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 7, 118
- ^ Quantum insights on Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter in PoS(EDSU2018)046
- ^ Planck stars in the International Journal of Modern Physics D 23 (12), 1442026 240 2014
- ^ Maximal acceleration in covariant loop gravity and singularity resolution in Physical Review Letters, 111.091303
- ^ Towards spinfoam cosmology in Physical Review D 82 (8), 084035
https://qspace.fqxi.org/competitions/home
External links
[edit]- Francesca Vidotto publications indexed by Google Scholar
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