Pietro Dona

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  • September 2023
    Maître de conférences (associate professor)
    University Aix-Marseille and Centre de Physique Theorique, Marseille (France)
  • September 2022
    Member of the Organizing Committee
    QISS an initiative funded by the John Templeton Foundation
  • September 2023
    Member of the Executive Committee
    Center for Spacetime and the Quantum, Marseille (France)
  • November 2022
    December 2023
    Visiting Professor
    University Western Ontario, London (Canada)
  • November 2021
    August 2023
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Center for Spacetime and the Quantum, Marseille (France)
  • July 2017
    June 2021
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Centre de Physique Theorique, Marseille (France)
  • September 2017
    June 2019
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    The Pennsylvania State University, State College (USA)
  • September 2016
    August 2017
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Centre de Physique Theorique, Marseille (France)
  • December 2014
    August 2016
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Fudan University, Shanghai (China)
  • October 2010
    September 2014
    Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics - with honors
    SISSA - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
    With the thesis Matter fields in Asymptotic Safety - supervisor Prof. Roberto Percacci
  • September 2008
    September 2010
    Master in Physics - 110/110 with Honors
    Università di Pisa
    With the thesis Polyhedra in Loop Quantum Gravity - supervisor Prof. Pietro Menotti and Prof. Simone Speziale
  • September 2008
    September 2010
    Allievo ordinario classe di Scienze
    Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
  • September 2005
    July 2008
    Bachelor in Physics - 110/110 with Honors
    Università di Pisa
    With the thesis Lie Algebras in Particle Physics - supervisor Prof. Damiano Anselmi
  • Project Co-Leader of the Enrico Fermi Fellowships grant
    John Templeton Fundation grant EUR 6.5M to award PhD fellowships to cross-train students in theoretical and experimental physics - cstq.org/eff - validity 01/09/2024 to 30/05/2029
  • Italian Abilitazione scientifica nazionale II Fascia
    SSC 02/A2 - Sixth term of the 2018 call - validity 14/04/2021 to 14/04/2030
  • French Qualification Maître de conférences
    Class of Constituants élémentaires - 29 - validity 02/02/2018 - 31/12/2022
  • French Qualification Maître de conférences
    Class of Constituants élémentaires - 29 - validity 01/02/2023 - 31/12/2027
  • IGC Post-Doctoral Scholar award
    Penn State University for the academic years 2017/2018 and 2018/2019
  • co-mentored Giorgio Sarno for his master thesis
    Simplicial and Generalized Spinfoams in Loop Quantum Gravity: Analytical and Numerical Results
    April 2017 at Università degli Studi di Torino - 110L/110
  • co-mentored Marco Fanizza for his master thesis
    Asymptotic analysis and numerical evaluations of vertex amplitudes in spinfoam models
    July 2017 at Università degli Studi di Pisa - 110L/110
  • mentored Alessandro Nicotra for his master thesis
    Wick rotation of the EPRL spin foam models
    February 2021 at Università degli Studi di Bologna - 110L/110
  • mentored Alessandro Pisana for his master thesis
    Tensor network techniques in Loop Quantum Gravity
    September 2022 at Università degli Studi di Padova - 110/110
  • mentored Jacopo Taddei for his master thesis
    Tunneling of Quantum Geometries in Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity
    September 2024 at Università degli Studi di Bologna
  • supervised Sreeram Gowrisankar for his master 2 stage
    Translating Regge Equations in the Spinfoam language
    April-July 2024 at Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille
  • co-mentored Giorgio Sarno for his Ph.D. work
    A numerical approach to spin foam models of quantum gravity
    September 2020 at Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille
  • co-supervised Sreeram Gowrisankar for his Ph.D.
    A top down approach to Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity
    starting in October 2024 at Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille
  • mentored two students for the scientifc watch research projects for the FunPhys Master 2 at CPT
    September 2020 - January 2023
  • Invited Plenary Speaker - May 6-10, 2024
    LOOPS 2024, Florida Atlantic University, USA
    sl2cfoam-next: New developments and applications
    slides
  • Invited Seminar - May 19, 2023
    Group seminar @ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich
    Spin foam theory. What is it? Where are we?
    slides
  • Invited Seminar - February 17, 2023
    GAPP Seminar at PennState University
    An (Over)view of Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity
    slides
  • Invited Seminar - May 6, 2022
    University of New Brunswick Gravity Group Meetings
    Can we compute spin foam amplitudes on a computer?
    slides
  • Invited Seminar - October 7, 2022
    Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany
    Local flatness in spin foam models
    slides
  • Invited Seminar - October 4, 2022
    University of Western Ontario, Canada
    Local flatness in spin foam models
    slides
  • Speaker - November 25, 2022
    2nd Marseille-Lyon QG meeting @ CPT, Marseille
    Local flatness in spin foam models
    slides
  • Invited Plenary Speaker - June 18-22, 2022
    LOOPS 2022, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
    Numerical evaluation of spin foam transition amplitudes
    slides
  • Invited Speaker - January 13-17, 2020
    QISS Conference, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
    Quantum Information of Loop Quantum Gravity States
    slides
  • Attendee - June 24-28, 2019
    IGC@25, PennState University, State College
  • Invited Plenary Speaker - June 17-21, 2019
    LOOPS 2019, PennState University, State College
    Numerical Study of Spin Foam Theories
    slides
  • Invited Seminar - April 26, 2018
    Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada
    Spin Foams: a numerical revolution
    slides
  • Attendee - March 5-9, 2018
    Quantum Gravity on the Computer, Nordita Stockholm, Sweden
  • Speaker - November 3-5, 2017
    MAS-APS, Newark, NJ, USA - American Physical Society
    Quantum Gravity made from quantum polyhedra
    slides
  • Invited Seminar - October 10, 2017
    International Loop Quantum Gravity Seminar
    SU(2) graph invariants, Regge actions and polytopes
    slides
  • Speaker - July 3-7, 2017
    LOOPS 2017, University of Warsaw, Poland
    Computing Lorentzian Spin Foam Amplitudes: Overview
    slides
  • Invited Seminar - January 16, 2017
    Laboratoire de Physique Theorique d'Orsay, Paris
    Cosmological applications of coherent states
    slides
  • Attendee - August 10-15, 2016
    21st International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Columbia University, New York
  • Speaker - April 14-15, 2016
    Fudan-Tokyo-Yonsei Workshop on Particle and Nuclear Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai
    Non-Perturbative Yang-Mills Condensate as Dark Energy
    slides
  • Speaker - December 14-18, 2015
    2nd LeCosPA International Symposium: Everything about Gravity, National Taiwan University, Taipei
    Asymptotic safety in an interacting system of gravity and matter
    slides
  • Attendee - July 12-18, 2015
    14th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, University of Rome - La Sapienza, Rome
  • Attendee - July 28-30 2015
    LOOPS 2015 Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen
  • Speaker - December 13, 2014
    Beijing Normal University
    Matter Matters in Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity
  • Attendee - May 28-30 2014
    1st FLAG meeting, The Quantum and Gravity, Bologna
  • Invited Speaker - April 28, 2014
    Primordial Universe and Gravity Discussions at IGC, PennState University, State College
    Matter Matters in Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity
  • Attendee - April 22-25 2014
    Renormalization Group Approaches to Quantum Gravity at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo
  • Speaker - January 21, 2014
    International Loop Quantum Gravity Seminar
    Matter Matters in Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity
  • Speaker - December 2, 2013
    Asymptotic Safety Online Seminar
    Matter Matters in Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity
  • Speaker - November 7, 2013
    Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo
    Matter Matters in Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity
  • Speaker - July 22-26, 2013
    LOOPS 2013, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo
    Matter Matters in Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity
  • Speaker - May 18, 2013
    Centre de Physique Theorique, Marseille
    Fermions and Tetrads in Asymptotic Safety
  • Speaker - October 15, 2012
    Asymptotic Safety Online Seminar
    Fermions and Tetrads in Asymptotic Safety
  • Attendee - September 2-7, 2012
    ERG2012, Centre Paul Langevin, Aussois