Interests

As a theoretical physicist my goal is to connect fundamental theoretical principles with feasible experiments.
For this purpose I am using analytical and numerical methods. In particular, I consider principles learned from the mathematical framework of string theory. I apply these fundamental principles to strongly coupled quantum systems far from equilibrium, such as the quark-gluon plasma generated in heavy-ion-collisions, neutron stars, ultracold atoms, particular topological phases. Topics of interest include:

• Holographic Principle & Gauge/Gravity Correspondence (AdS/CFT)
• Quantum Field Theory, Gravitational Physics, String Theory
• Hydrodynamics and other Effective Field Theories
• Strongly Coupled Many-Body Quantum Systems in and out of Equilibrium
• Quark-Gluon-Plasma and Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Condensed Matter Physics
• Quantum Entanglement, Quantum Information, and Thermalization
• Machine Learning

---

Publications

• Citation data from INSPIRE
• ​Publications on INSPIRE
• Publications on the arXiv
• Publications on Google Scholar

---

Conference Organization

---

Seminars at the University of Alabama

• Physics Colloquium (Vice-Chair for Communication & Outreach)
• High Energy Theory Seminar (Organizer)
• ​Gauge/Gravity Journal Club (Organizer)

---

Selected Invited Talks

2024

• Public talk: Quantum mechanics in the lab can explain the origin of space and time (Slides), on the occasion of appointment to Fellow of the Siebold-Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS) of the University of Würzburg.

2023

• Conference talk: Early time dynamics far from equilibrium via holography (Slides), Hard Probes 2023, 11th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Aschaffenburg, Germany)

2022

• Conference talk: Hydrodynamics, Thermalization & Entanglement from Spacetime Geometry (Slides), CTQMAT22 – International Conference on Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter (Wurzburg, Germany)

2021

• Conference talk: Chiral Magnetic Effect in Holography (Slides),
  6th International Conference on Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Field in Heavy Ion Collisions, Stony Brook University, New York
• Conference talk: Inverted c-functions in thermal states (Slides),
  DPG-Tagung 2021, German Physical Society Meeting

2020

• Conference talk: Chiral hydrodynamics of plasmas in strong magnetic fields (video),
  Workshop “Problems of Duality and Holography”, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow
• Conference talk: Chiral hydrodynamics of plasmas in strong magnetic fields & quantum criticality (Slides),
  HIPSTARS – Workshop on Heavy Ion Physics and Compact Stars, Cuba

2019

• Public talk: Information society at a science rave at the event “A Celebration of Cultural Diversity Through the Arts” (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL).

• Correlations far from equilibrium in charged strongly coupled fluids subjected to a strong magnetic field at
  • Holographic QCD Workshop (NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden), and
  • NED2019 conference (Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy)
• Correlations far from equilibrium in charged strongly coupled fluids subjected to a strong magnetic field at INT Workshop Origins of Correlations in High Energy Collisions (INT, Seattle, WA)

2018

• Chiral transport in strong magnetic fields from hydrodynamics & holography (video) at the conference Gauge/Gravity Duality 2018 (Würzburg, Germany)
• Seminar talk Strengths of the holographic approach at high baryon densities (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
• CME & CMV neutron star kicks, thermodynamic chiral transport, and polarization at the conference Open Problems and Opportunities in Chiral Fluids (Santa Fe, NM)
• Correlations far from equilibrium in strong magnetic fields at HoloQuark2018 (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
• Lecture: (Far-from-equilibrium) dynamics in magnetic charged chiral plasma at the conference Non-Equilibrium Dynamics – NED2018 (Varadero, Cuba)
• A reality check for chiral magnetic transport & holography at the workshop on Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Field in Heavy Ion Collisions (GGI Florence, Italy)

2017

• Chiral magnetic transport from holography & hydrodynamics at the workshop Holography and Quantum Matter ( Madrid, Spain)
• Quasinormal modes of charged magnetic black branes & chiral magnetic transport in strongly correlated systems (including backreaction of magnetic field) at the conference QCD in finite temperature and heavy ion collisions (BNL, Upton, NY, USA)
• Chiral transport effects in charged anisotropic plasma within a magnetic field at strong coupling (including backreaction of magnetic field) at the APS April Meeting 2017 (Washington DC, USA)

2016 and earlier

• Holographic non-relativistic transport in strongly correlated systems from Horava gravity (video) at conference Gauge/Gravity Duality and Condensed Matter (Banff, Canada, 2016)
• String theory & experiments: Effects of anomalies on strongly coupled systems far from equilibrium, NORDITA (Stockholm, Sweden, 2014)
• Colloquium: A Theory of Everything at Strong Coupling, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL, 2014)
• Non-Relativistic Parity-Violating Hydrodynamics in two Spatial Dimensions, at workshop “Quantum Anomalies & Hydrodynamics” (Simons Center, Stony Brook, NY, 2014)
• Hyperscaling Violation on Probe D-Branes at the workshop “Holography and Applied String Theory”, (Banff, Canada, 2013)
• Parity-Violating Hydrodynamics & Replacing the Entropy Argument at Mextrings 2012 (Mexico City, Mexico, 2012)
• Hydrodynamics, AdS/CFT Correspondence, and the Ridge at the INT workshop The “Ridge” Correlation in High-Energy Collisions at RHIC and LHC (Seattle, WA, 2012).
• Strongly coupled field theories through the holographic lense in the INT Special Seminar at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA, 2011)
• Sum rules from an extra dimension within the KITPC program: AdS/CFT and Novel Approaches to Hadron and Heavy Ion Physics (Beijing, China, 2010)
• Fermions in a holographic p-wave superfluid at the Imperial College String Seminar (London, UK, 2010)
• Lectures on flavor superfluidity & superconductivity at the Fifth Aegean Summer School (Adamas, Milos Island, Greece, 2009)
• AdS/CFT overview talk at the EMMI-workshop: Quarks, Hadrons & Phases of QCD (St.Goar, Germany, 2009)
• Hydrodynamics, quasinormal modes & spontaneous symmetry breaking at the Fluid/Gravity Workshop (Munich, Germany, 2009)
• AdS/CFT and thermal properties of strongly coupled systems at the workshop “Numerical and Conceptual Issues in Relativistic Hydrodynamics” (Frankfurt, Germany, 2007)