As As a theoretical physicist, Dr. Prof. Antonino Marciano’ focuses his scientific research on a variety of topics, ranging mainly from quantum field theories and theories of gravity, to their neighboring research areas (including gravitational waves, dark matter models, dark energy and primordial cosmology, the investigation of the information paradox in black holes, and finally quantum gravity and cosmology, including loop quantum gravity and string theory), as well as analogous applications to Solid State Physics, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computation.

Antonino joined the Department of Physics at Fudan University in January 2014, as a faculty member of the theory and high-energy division. Previously, he has been post-doctoral researcher in the USA, working at Princeton University and Dartmouth College on models for cosmological inflation and the physics of cosmic microwave background radiation, in collaboration with the lead scientist of the NASA satellite mission WMAP  David Spergel (currently director of the Simons Flatiron Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology in New York City). Primordial cosmology is still among Antonino’s main topics of research. Furthermore, while in the USA, he also continued focusing with Lee Smolin (founder of the Perimeter Institute for theoretical studies in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), on the Wilson-loop approach to Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Gravity. Antonino had learnt about the latter theory, dubbed Loop Quantum Gravity, while working at Aix-Marseille University with Carlo Rovelli, currently among the most famous popular science writers and celebrate physicists in the world, founder together with Lee Smolin of Loop Quantum Gravity. The interest for quantum gravity, in particular for the non-commutative geometry approach and the quantum group structure of space-time symmetries, started during Antonino’s Ph.D. at Sapienza University of Rome, under the supervision of Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, the father of the research direction on quantum gravity phenomenology, often cited as one among the few living researcher able to become the new Einstein of physics.

After having being active in all the branches of high energy physics, Antonino’s current scientific investigations have started involving the implementation in condensed-matter physics of mathematical tools borrowed from high energy physics and quantum gravity. The main attempt of this direction of research is to develop a better understanding of the non-perturbative regimes in lattice structures, so as to gain predicting power on the dynamics and the properties of some very promising materials for the industry, like graphene and a huge variety of  bi-dimensional topological insulators. Recently, he has been focusing on the implementation of topological quantum field theory methods into machine learning, focusing on the development of algorithms for quantum neural networks, and their possible industrial instantiation through topological materials, the latter ones being described by the same topological quantum physics methods applied to gravity and high energy physics.

Antonino’s mentoring activities include the direction of several Chinese and international (e.g., form the USA, Italy, Germany and France) master and Ph.D students at Fudan University, and the supervision of Chinese and international post-doc from the top institutions in the world. His teaching activity ranges from giving classes of high energy physics and particles physics, to classes of particle cosmology, and quantum gravity.

Antonino has published so far about 100 articles in international scientific journals with the highest impact factors. He serves as referee for Nature, the American Physical Society, and several Chinese and European journals to assess publications of scientific papers, and as a reviewer for the Italian Minister of the University and Research, for the Dutch Royal Academy of Science, and for the National Science Centre of Poland, to evaluate tenure-track applications and assess scientific grants up to one million euros.

Antonino is currently Tenured Associate Professor at Fudan University, Full Professor for the Italian Ministry of University and Research, and member of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), assigned to the theory division of the Frascati laboratories. Since November 2020 is the new president of the Association of the Italian Academicians in China (AAIIC).

a theoretical physicist, Dr. Prof. Antonino Marciano’ focuses his scientific research on a variety of topics, ranging mainly from quantum field theories and theories of gravity, to their neighboring research areas (including gravitational waves, dark matter models, dark energy and primordial cosmology, the investigation of the information paradox in black holes, and finally quantum gravity and cosmology, including loop quantum gravity and string theory), as well as analogous applications to Solid State Physics, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computation.

Antonino joined the Department of Physics at Fudan University in January 2014, as a faculty member of the theory and high-energy division. Previously, he has been post-doctoral researcher in the USA, working at Princeton University and Dartmouth College on models for cosmological inflation and the physics of cosmic microwave background radiation, in collaboration with the lead scientist of the NASA satellite mission WMAP  David Spergel (currently director of the Simons Flatiron Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology in New York City). Primordial cosmology is still among Antonino’s main topics of research. Furthermore, while in the USA, he also continued focusing with Lee Smolin (founder of the Perimeter Institute for theoretical studies in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), on the Wilson-loop approach to Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Gravity. Antonino had learnt about the latter theory, dubbed Loop Quantum Gravity, while working at Aix-Marseille University with Carlo Rovelli, currently among the most famous popular science writers and celebrate physicists in the world, founder together with Lee Smolin of Loop Quantum Gravity. The interest for quantum gravity, in particular for the non-commutative geometry approach and the quantum group structure of space-time symmetries, started during Antonino’s Ph.D. at Sapienza University of Rome, under the supervision of Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, the father of the research direction on quantum gravity phenomenology, often cited as one among the few living researcher able to become the new Einstein of physics.

After having being active in all the branches of high energy physics, Antonino’s current scientific investigations have started involving the implementation in condensed-matter physics of mathematical tools borrowed from high energy physics and quantum gravity. The main attempt of this direction of research is to develop a better understanding of the non-perturbative regimes in lattice structures, so as to gain predicting power on the dynamics and the properties of some very promising materials for the industry, like graphene and a huge variety of  bi-dimensional topological insulators. Recently, he has been focusing on the implementation of topological quantum field theory methods into machine learning, focusing on the development of algorithms for quantum neural networks, and their possible industrial instantiation through topological materials, the latter ones being described by the same topological quantum physics methods applied to gravity and high energy physics.

Antonino’s mentoring activities include the direction of several Chinese and international (e.g., form the USA, Italy, Germany and France) master and Ph.D students at Fudan University, and the supervision of Chinese and international post-doc from the top institutions in the world. His teaching activity ranges from giving classes of high energy physics and particles physics, to classes of particle cosmology, and quantum gravity.

Antonino has published so far about 100 articles in international scientific journals with the highest impact factors. He serves as referee for Nature, the American Physical Society, and several Chinese and European journals to assess publications of scientific papers, and as a reviewer for the Italian Minister of the University and Research, for the Dutch Royal Academy of Science, and for the National Science Centre of Poland, to evaluate tenure-track applications and assess scientific grants up to one million euros.

Antonino is currently Tenured Associate Professor at Fudan University, Full Professor for the Italian Ministry of University and Research, and member of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), assigned to the theory division of the Frascati laboratories. Since November 2020 is the new president of the Association of the Italian Academicians in China (AAIIC).