Professor Rodolfo Russo

Profile

I did my undergraduate studies at the universities of Pavia and Torino, Italy and obtained my PhD from Politecnico di Torino. I was a postdoc at the university of Neuchâtel (1998-200), École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2000-2003) and CERN, Geneva (2004-2005) before joining QMUL in 2006.

My research focuses on String Theory, Quantum Field Theory and the relation between the two. In particular I am currently working on various aspects of the AdS/CFT duality in presence of heavy states and on the eikonal limit of gravitational scattering. Both problems provide interesting insights on black hole dynamics, which has been at centre of my interests in the past few years.

Teaching

I teach the module MTH4400 - Applied Calculus 

Research

Research Interests:

See Rodolfo Russo’s research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.

Supervision

This is not an exhaustive list and I would be happy to discuss other project possibilities.

I supervised the PhD projects of

• Dario Duò (graduated in 2009)
• William Black (graduated in 2012)
• Sam Playle (graduated in 2014)
• Emanuele Moscato (graduated in 2017)
• Nejc Ceplak (graduated in 2020)
• Marcel Hughes (graduate in 2021)

I co-supervised the work of Arnau Koemans Collado (graduated in 2020), Moritz McGarrie and David Turton (graduated in 2011)