Etera Livine

Education

2000-03 PhD in Theoretical Physics - Aix-Marseille University (France)
supervised by Prof. C Rovelli (CPT, France) & Prof. L Smolin (Imperial College, UK)
Loop gravity and spin foam: Covariant methods for the nonperturbative quantization of general relativity [arXiv:gr-qc/0309028]

2010 Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HdR) - ENS Lyon (France)
The Spinfoam Framework for Quantum Gravity [arXiv:1101.5061]

Career

2003-06 Postdoctoral Fellow - Perimeter Institute (Canada)

2005-15 Chargé de Recherche CNRS - Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon (France)

2015-now Directeur de Recherche CNRS (Tenured Professor) - Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon (France)

2014-now Visiting Researcher Fellowship  - Perimeter Institute (Canada)

Distinctions

2003 Prix de la Thèse (Best PhD thesis Award) de l'Université d'Aix-Marseille (France)

2008 Médaille de Bronze du CNRS - Bronze Medal of the CNRS [pdf]

Publication metrics

Publications in peer-reviewed international journals: 132 (available on the open science archive arXiv.org)

Inspirehep : h-index of 40 with 1 paper at 500+ citations, 3 papers at 200+ citations and 4 papers at 100+ citations

Google Scholar : h-index of 43 with 2 papers with 600+ citations, 3 papers at 250+ citations and 9 papers at 100+ citations

PhD students
 

1. M Dupuis (2007-10), ENS Lyon (France), defended on 16/12/2010
   Spin Foam Models for Quantum Gravity and semi-classical limit [arXiv:1104.2765]
   Present position : Academic and Research Programs Director at Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Canada)

2. V Bonzom (2007-10), ENS Lyon (France) & CPT (Marseille, France), defended on 23/09/2010
   Geometrie quantique dans les mousses de spins: De la theorie topologique BF vers la relativite generale [arXiv:1009.5100]
   Present position : Maître de Conférence (Assistant Professor) at LIPN (Paris, France)

3. C Charles (2013-16), ENS Lyon (France), defended on 25/11/2016
   Renormalization and Coarse-graining of Loop Quantum Gravity [arXiv:1705.10984]

4. A Feller (2014-17), ENS Lyon (France), defended on 23/12/2017
   Entanglement and Decoherence in Loop Quantum Gravity [hal-01650029]
   Present position : Postdoctoral researcher at CRIStAL (Lille, France)

5. Y Herfray (2014-17), ENS Lyon (France) & University of Nottingham (UK), defended on 27/10/2017
   New avenues for Einstein's Gravity : from Penrose's Twistors to Hitchin's Three-Forms [arXiv:1807.11376]
   Present position : Maître de Conférence (Assistant Professor) at IDP (Tours, France)

6. C Goeller (2016-19), ENS Lyon (France) & Perimeter Institute (Canada), defended on 05/11/2019
   Quasi-Local 3D Quantum Gravity : Exact Amplitude and Holography [arXiv:2005.09985]
   Present position : Postdoctoral Researcher at LMU (Munich, Germany)

7. Q Chen (2019-22), ENS Lyon (France), defended on 17/11/2022
   Spin network Entanglement and Bulk-Boundary Map in Loop Quantum Gravity [hal-04001246]
   Present position : Postdoctoral Researcher at LIP (Lyon, France)

8. Q Pan (2018-22), ENS Lyon (France) & Perimeter Institute (Canada), defended on 29/06/2022
   q-deformed LQG in three dimensional space-time [UW Space]
   Present position : Postdoctoral Researcher at FAU (Florida, USA)

9. F Sartini (2019-22), ENS Lyon (France), defended on 01/07/2022
   Hidden Symmetries in Gravity : Black holes and other minisuperspaces [arXiv:2211.04909]
   Present position : Postdoctoral Researcher at OIST (Okinawa, Japan)

10. C Montagnon (2022-..), ENS Lyon (France) & University of Lyon I

11. V Maris (starting on Sept 2023), ENS Lyon (France) & University of Orsay (Paris, France)