Associate Professor

Andrea's research bridges high-energy physics and condensed matter, with a focus on strongly correlated electron systems, quantum field theory, and hydrodynamics. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cambridge, the University of Würzburg, and the Université libre de Bruxelles before joining the University of Genoa as an Associate Professor. His contributions include the application of AdS/CFT methods to condensed matter systems. His recent work involves the development of relaxed hydrodynamic theories, the study of thermodynamic constraints in active matter, the formulation of boost-agnostic kinetic theory, the investigation of critical phenomena using statistical field theory techniques, and the exploration of exotic behavior in superconductors.

Associate Professor

Nico specializes in statistical and conformal field theory. His research has explored topics such as confining strings in three-dimensional gauge theories and conformal perturbation theory.  Nico is also affiliated with the INFN Genoa Section, engaging in interdisciplinary studies that connect fundamental physics with complex systems. 

Senior Research Associate, (ricercatore tipo A)

Daniel K. Brattan is an expert in hydrodynamics, non-equilibrium systems, and the application of gauge-gravity duality to condensed matter physics. He earned his PhD in string theory from Durham University and has held postdoctoral positions at the Technion (Israel), USTC (China), INFN Genoa (Italy), and École Polytechnique (France).  His recent work includes exploring relaxed hydrodynamic theories, investigating thermodynamic constraints in active matter systems and developing boost agnostic kinetic theory.

Postdoctoral researcher

Alkistis earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Athens and her doctorate at Loughbrough university in the UK. Her research focuses on superconductivity in thin films, studied through generalizations of the Gorkov equations. She investigates how these theoretical models can describe unconventional superconducting states and related phenomena. 

Doctoral candidate

Jonas is a third year doctoral student with the group. His current research focuses on the areas of quasihydrodynamics and anomalous transport phenomena. Jonas has co-authored several publications, including works on dissipative electrically driven fluids and anomalous hydrodynamic transport in Weyl semimetals.

Doctoral candidate

Matteo is our newest doctoral student. He completed his master thesis with the group on infrared dualities of Majorana fermions and their bosonizations in three dimensions. His current research further develops this topic to include the study of critical points and phase transitions. He is interested in various aspects of quantum field theory; particularly, Chern-Simons theories which are a key ingredient in the dualities he previously explored. 

Former doctoral student; went on to be a postdoc at the University of Padua in the Collaborative Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Physics (LIPh Lab).

Luca Martinoia earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Genoa in March 2024, with a thesis titled "Developments in quasihydrodynamics," focusing on systems with weakly broken conservation laws and their transport properties. 

During his doctoral studies, Luca contributed to research on anomalous hydrodynamic transport in Weyl semimetals, and explored the destruction of superconductivity in thin films under electric fields.

Former postdoctoral researcher; went on to become a STFC Research Fellow at the University of Southampton.

Ioannis earned his PhD in 2021 from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Johanna Erdmenger. From 2021 to 2023, he held a postdoctoral position at the University of Genoa, contributing to research on topics such as electrically driven fluids and the destruction of superconductivity in thin films under electric fields.

Former doctoral student; went on to become a web-developer at Accenture Italia.

While with the group Marcello studied conformal perturbation theory and holographic models that describe the transport properties of condensed matter systems. These latter systems included high-temperature superconductors.