Alessia Benedetta Platania

Assistant Professor, Theoretical High Energy, Astroparticle and Gravitational Physics

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I am an Assistant Professor and a Research Group Leader at the Niels Bohr Institute (University of Copenhagen). 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. In recent years 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. The goal of my most recent studies is to determine the intersections between the string and asymptotic safety landscapes, and the set of consistent effective field theories compatible with observations.