Chargée de recherche at CNRS

Laureate of an ERC Starting Grant, Horizon 2020, "Information Encoding in Quantum Gravity and the Black Hole Information Paradox"

Research group: String Theory

Research interests

• Celestial Amplitudes and Flat Space Holography
• Asymptotic Symmetries, Soft Theorems and Celestial CFT
• Black Holes and the Information Paradox
• Quantum Information, AdS/CFT and Black Hole Microstates
• Gravitational Aspects of String Theory

Past Appointments

• 2016-2017: Black Hole Initiative Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
• 2013-2016: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Education

• 2010-2013: PhD in Theoretical Physics, IPhT-CEA/Saclay and UPMC (Paris 6), France.
• 2004-2010: Diplomstudium Technische Physik, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
• 2008: Erasmus Programme, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
• 2006-2007: Summer Student/Internship: ASACUSA Experiment at CERN & Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Vienna, Austria.

Honors and Awards

• 2020-2025: ERC Starting Grant, Horizon 2020, "Information Encoding in Quantum Gravity and the Black Hole Information Paradox".
• 2016-2019: Black Hole Initiative Fellowship, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
• 2010-2013: Bourse/Contrat de thèse de CEA, IPhT-CEA/Saclay, France.
• 2010: US-Austrian Marshall Plan Scholarship, KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
• 2007: Excellence Scholarship, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
• 2004: First Prize from the Austrian Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics

PhD thesis

"Black Holes in String Theory: Guides to Quantum Gravity", PhD advisor: Iosif Bena, defense: 4 July 2013, PhD degree from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6).

Publications

INSPIRE