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Romain Ruzziconi
Biography
Romain Ruzziconi completed his PhD at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 2020 and began his first postdoc at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). In 2023, he joined the University of Oxford as a Titchmarsh Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute and Walker Early Career Fellow at Balliol College. He is now a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow affiliated with the Black Hole Initiative and the Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature in the Department of Physics at Harvard University.
Romain works broadly at the interface of holography, quantum gravity, scattering amplitudes, and twistor theory. Recently, he has focused on formulating holography for spacetimes with a vanishing cosmological constant, which serve as models for real-world phenomena such as gravitational waves and black holes. He is particularly interested in connecting this framework with AdS/CFT, exploring the rich celestial symmetry structures that arise in this context, and their interpretation in terms of Carrollian physics.
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