Photograph of Alessia Platania

University of Copenhagen

Areas of research: Gravitation Quantique

https://alessiaplatania.wordpress.com/

Overview
Alessia Platania is an Assistant Professor and Research Group Leader at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Previously, she pursued a Double Ph.D. degree in Physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen and Catania University, she worked as a Humboldt research fellow at the University of Heidelberg, and she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Alessia was awarded several prizes, including the "Roberto Giordano" and "Sergio Fubini" prizes, the Springer Thesis Award for outstanding Ph.D. thesis, and the Perimeter Institute BMO “Inclusive Excellence” postdoc prize.
Research Interests
My research lies at the interface between quantum gravity, black hole physics, and cosmology. In the past, I focused on the study of renormalization group flows of quantum gravity-matter systems (with and without Lorentz invariance violations), and on the construction of modified cosmological models and black-hole spacetimes attempting to capture the hallmarks of asymptotically safe gravity. More recently, I got interested in potential connections between string theory and asymptotically safe gravity, and I have initiated the study of non-perturbative aspects of string theory via functional renormalization group techniques.
Positions Held
  • Assistant Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2024-present
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Perimeter Institute, 2020-2024
  • Humboldt fellow, Heidelberg University, 2018-2020
  • Postdoctoral researcher, Heidelberg University, 2017-2018
  • PhD student, Radboud University Nijmegen, 2014-2018
Awards
  • Invited scientific short-term visitor within the “Origins Excellence Cluster Visitor Program”, Technical University of Munich (TUM), 2022
  • BMO “Inclusive Excellence” Postdoc Prize, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2022
  • Distinguished Visitor, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita), 2022
  • Invitation to the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, 2019
  • "Sergio Fubini" PhD Award, Italian Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics, 2018
  • Best Contribution by Young Scientists to the conference "Quantum Fields - from Fundamental Concepts to Phenomenological Questions", Scientific journal Universe, 2018
  • Springer Theses Award, Springer scientific review panel, 2018
  • "Roberto Giordano" Degree Award 2013/14, University of Catania, 2014
Recent Publications
  • Knorr, B., & Platania, A. (2024). Unearthing the intersections: positivity bounds, weak gravity conjecture, and asymptotic safety landscapes from photon-graviton flows. arxiv:2405.08860v2
  • Batista, R. A., Amelino-Camelia, G., Boncioli, D., Carmona, J. M., Matteo, A. D., Gubitosi, G., . . . Zornoza, J. D. (2023). White Paper and Roadmap for Quantum Gravity Phenomenology in the Multi-Messenger Era. doi:10.1088/1361-6382/ad605a
  • Platania, A., & Redondo-Yuste, J. (2023). Diverging black hole entropy from quantum infrared non-localities. arxiv:2303.17621v1
  • Borissova, J. N., & Platania, A. (n.d.). Formation and evaporation of quantum black holes from the decoupling mechanism in quantum gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(3), 46. doi:10.1007/jhep03(2023)046
  • Platania, A. (2023). Black Holes in Asymptotically Safe Gravity. In Handbook of Quantum Gravity (pp. 1-65). Springer Nature. doi:10.1007/978-981-19-3079-9_24-1
  • Knorr, B., Platania, A., & Schiffer, M. (2022). Configuration space for quantum gravity in a locally regularized path integral. Physical Review D, 106(12), 126002. doi:10.1103/physrevd.106.126002
  • Fraaije, M., Platania, A., & Saueressig, F. (2022). On the reconstruction problem in quantum gravity. Physics Letters B, 834, 137399. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137399
  • Platania, A. (n.d.). Causality, unitarity and stability in quantum gravity: a non-perturbative perspective. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(9), 167. doi:10.1007/jhep09(2022)167
  • Knorr, B., & Platania, A. (2022). Sifting quantum black holes through the principle of least action. Physical Review D, 106(2), l021901. doi:10.1103/physrevd.106.l021901
  • Addazi, A., Alvarez-Muniz, J., Batista, R. A., Amelino-Camelia, G., Antonelli, V., Arzano, M., . . . Zornoza, J. D. (2022). Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era—A review. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 125, 103948. doi:10.1016/j.ppnp.2022.103948
Seminars
  • Sifting quantum black holes through the principle of least action, 2024/02/22
  • Sifting quantum black holes through the principle of least action, Quantum Gravity, 2024/02/22, PIRSA:24020091
  • Quantum Spacetimes from Gravitational Renormalization Group Flows, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 2024/02/16
  • Asymptotic constraints on quantum black holes, Corfu Summer Institute, 2023/11/22
  • Quantum Gravity Landscape and the Observational Swampland, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, 2023/09/15
  • Quantum Gravity Landscape and the Observational Swampland, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, 2023/09/06
  • Asymptotic constraints on quantum black holes, London-Oldenburg Relativity Seminar, 2023/07/12
  • Asymptotic constraints on quantum black holes, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, 2023/07/06
  • A pedagogical introduction to Asymptotically Safe Gravity, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, 2023/05/11
  • Non-perturbative strings, asymptotic safety, and the swampland, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, 2023/05/02
  • Asymptotic safety and the swampland, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2023/04/25
  • Asymptotic constraints on quantum black holes, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, 2023/04/20
  • Diverging black hole entropy from quantum infrared non-localities, 2023/04/19
  • Sifting quantum black holes through the principle of least action, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, Italy, 2023/04/18
  • Asymptotic Safety in Quantum Gravity, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, 2023/04/17
  • Non-perturbative strings, asymptotic safety, and the swampland, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, 2023/04/05
  • Cosmological \alpha' corrections from the functional renormalization group, University of Cambridge, DAMTP, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2023/04/03
  • Sifting quantum black holes through the principle of least action, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2023/03/29
  • Non-perturbative strings, asymptotic safety, and the swampland, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, 2023/03/24
  • Cosmological \alpha' corrections from the functional renormalization group, University of Portsmouth, ICG, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 2023/03/22
  • Sifting quantum black holes through the principle of least action, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, 2023/03/20
  • Non-perturbative strings, asymptotic safety, and the swampland, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 2023/03/14
  • Non-perturbative strings, asymptotic safety, and the swampland, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stockholm, Sweden, 2022/11/23
  • Causality, non-perturbative unitarity, and stability in quantum gravity: a non-perturbative perspective, 2022/11/14
  • Asymptotic Safety and the Swampland, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, 2022/10/27
  • Cosmological \alpha' corrections from the functional renormalization group, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, 2022/10/27
  • Non-perturbative strings, asymptotic safety, and the swampland, 11th International Conference on the Exact Renormalization Group 2022 (ERG2022), Berlin, 2022/07/28
  • Asymptotic Safety and the Swampland, Seminar series "String Pheno Seminars", Online, 2022/06/07
  • Asymptotic Safety and the Swampland, Seminar talk, series "Quantum Fields and Strings Meetings", 2022/04/22
  • Sifting quantum black holes through the principle of least action, Seminar series "ETH particle seminars", ETH Zürich (videoconference), 2022/04/07
  • Sifting quantum black holes through the principle of least action, Quantum gravity, Cosmology, and Black Holes, Covilhã, 2022/03/16
  • Sifting quantum black holes through the principle of least action, Future trends in gravitational physics, videoconference, 2022/02/09