Student Projects

Ph.D., master’s and undergraduate theses I have supervised. Open a group to see the list.

Ph.D. students (5)

Matteo Morittu

Ph.D. 2019/20 – 2022/23. Postdoc at the University of Oviedo.
Dario Partipilo

Ph.D. 2018/19 – 2021/22. Executive Director in the risk division at Goldman Sachs International.
- Old and new vacua of 5D maximal supergravity
Niccolò Cribiori

Ph.D. 2015/16 – 2017/18. Tenure-track researcher at the University of Padova (Rita Levi Montalcini grant).
Gianluca Inverso

Ph.D. 2010/11 – 2012/13. Co-advised with M. Bianchi (Rome “Tor Vergata”). Now permanent INFN researcher.
Alessandra Gnecchi

Ph.D. 2008/09 – 2010/11. Now permanent INFN researcher.
- Flow equations and attractors for black holes in N = 2 U(1) gauged supergravity

Master’s theses (24)

2025/26
Lorenzo TakorSpin Bieberbach manifolds and supergravity compactifications
2025/26
Erica Di BariConsistent gaugings of maximal supergravity in 4dThen Ph.D. student in Bari
2024/25
Luca BertagnoSupergravity on Bieberbach manifolds
2023/24
Gaetano SifoNew black hole solutions in N = 2 U(1) gauged supergravityThen Ph.D. student in Heidelberg
2023/24
Riccardo CostantiniMachine learning supergravity vacua
2022/23
Christian AoufiaA fermionic swampland conjectureThen Ph.D. student at UAM, Madrid
2021/22
Valentina BevilacquaLearning flat vacua of maximal supergravityThen Ph.D. student at Rome “Tor Vergata”
2020/21
Gabriele CasagrandeDuality and the weak gravity conjectureThen Ph.D. student at École Polytechnique
2020/21
Mario GiacobboMulti-centre AdS black holes
2020/21
Tommaso MolinariThe de Sitter conjecture and the Standard Model landscape
2019/20
Matteo ZattiHigher-derivative corrections to extremal black holes and the weak gravity conjectureThen Ph.D. student at UAM, Madrid
2018/19
Matteo MorittuThe string landscape and the swamplandThen Ph.D. student in Padova
2018/19
Fabio FerremiGravitational effects on the muon g−2
2017/18
Andrea GrigolettoChromo-natural inflation in supergravityThen Ph.D. student at SISSA
2017/18
Stefano De AngelisRadiative corrections to the vacua of broken extended supergravityThen Ph.D. student at Queen Mary University of London
2016/17
Paolo SpezzatiGeometric transitions and moduli spaces of N = 8 supergravityThen Ph.D. student at SISSA. Published in Uplifts of maximal supergravities and transitions to non-geometric vacua
2016/17
Elia ZanoniSuper-Higgs mechanism in non-linear supersymmetry
2014/15
Marco GorghettoStability and uplift of supergravity vacuaThen Ph.D. student at SISSA
2014/15
Carlo De ToniThe Kaluza–Klein spectrum of M-theory on the Stiefel manifold
2011/12
Gianluca ZoccaratoOn the stability of positive energy vacua in N = 2 supergravityThen Ph.D. student at IFT-UAM, Madrid; now researcher at Rome “Tor Vergata”
2009/10
Chiara ToldoSupergravity black holes and dualityThen Ph.D. student at ITF, Utrecht University. Cited in U-duality and non-BPS solutions
2009/10
Gianluca Inversode Sitter vacua in maximal supergravityThen Ph.D. student at Rome “Tor Vergata”; now INFN researcher. Published in On the vacua of N = 8 gauged supergravity in 4 dimensions
2008/09
Marco BaggioA test of the AdS/CFT correspondenceThen Ph.D. student at UvA, Amsterdam
2006/07
Riccardo NicolettiSupergravity effective theories for compactifications with fluxes and branesThen Ph.D. student at the University of Turin

Galilean School thesis (1)

2017/18
Lorenzo CasarinLocalization and supersymmetric theories on curved spacesThen Ph.D. student at AEI Potsdam

Third-year projects (4)

2015/16
Andrea GrigolettoQuasi-normal modes of black holes
2012/13
Francesco VedovatoSupersymmetry and quantum mechanics
2011/12
Stefano AndrioloExtra dimensions and preferred observers
2009/10
Dario CannoneGravity and extra dimensions

Student Projects

Matteo Morittu

Dario Partipilo

Niccolò Cribiori

Gianluca Inverso

Alessandra Gnecchi