Francesca Vidotto Female Italian theoretical physicist
Francesca Vidotto pictured in a 2017 recreation of 1927 Solvay Conference. Third row, fourth from the left. Francesca Vidotto (born November 22, 1980) is an Italian theoretical physicist .
Biography
She earned her UG /MA in theoretical physics at the University of Padova and the PhD as double-degree at the University of Pavia and the Aix-Marseille Université . Afterwards, she was a postdoc researcher at the universities of Grenoble , Nijmegen and Bilbao .[ 1] Physics & Astronomy and Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario , where she hold a Canada Research Chair in Foundations of Physics . She was also a core member and associate director of Western's Rotman Institute of Philosophy .[ 2]
Her research explores the quantum aspects of the gravitational field , in the framework of Loop Quantum Gravity . Her work covers topics from the cosmological and astrophysical applications of quantum gravity to the reflections on the nature of space-time and the foundations of quantum mechanics . She is best known for two research directions: Spin foam Cosmology , and Planck stars , with special emphasis on white holes and black hole remnants . Her main research interests have been cosmology, the quantum effect of black holes , and the foundations of quantum mechanics .[ 3]
Vidotto won the first prize (shared with Amanda Gefter ) in the 2023 FQXi contest "How could science be different?" for her essay "How Could Science Be Different? Ask a feminist!" . She is an advocate for equity, inclusion and diversity in the physics field.[ 4] philosophy and physics go hand in hand.[ 5]
Publications
Scientific book
Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity: An elementary introduction (with Carlo Rovelli ), Cambridge University Press, 2015.[ 6] Main scientific papers
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Primordial Fluctuations from Quantum Gravity (with Francesco Gozzini), 2019.[ 8] Quantum insights on Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter , 2018.[ 9] Planck stars (with Carlo Rovelli), 2014.[ 10] Maximal acceleration in covariant loop gravity and singularity resolution (with Carlo Rovelli), 2013.[ 11] Towards spinfoam cosmology (with Eugenio Bianchi and Carlo Rovelli ), 2010.[ 12] External links
International National Academics Other
