Professor Gabriele Travaglini

Profile

My work focuses on modern methods to compute relativistic scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity. Particular problems I am interested in are the study of hidden symmetries of the S-matrix of quantum field theories and the computation of the scattering amplitudes, particularly in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and in (super)gravity theories. More recently I have been working on applying scattering amplitude techniques to problems in classical gravitational physics, specifically to study the emission of gravitational waves in the merger of two black holes or neutron stars. A short summary of this research written for the general public can be found here (see page 9).

From 2018 to 2022 I was the Scientific Coordinator of SAGEX  ("Scattering Amplitudes: from Geometry to Experiment"), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission. SAGEX was a unique consortium that brought together eight academic beneficiary institutions, eight academic partners as well as high-profile industry partners, in order to train 15 Early Stage Researchers in the rapidly evolving field of scattering amplitudes.

Research Awards

1. Leverhulme Research Fellow 2024-2025, the Leverhulme Trust
2. 2016 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
3. Faculty of Science and Engineering Research Achievement Award 2011, Queen Mary, University of London (2012)
4. Associateship to the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University, 2011-2012.
5. Nuclear Physics B Most Cited Article 2006-2010 Award, with Andreas Brandhuber and Paul Heslop, for the paper MHV Amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills and Wilson Loops. The paper is also available through the arXiv.

Teaching

I am the module organiser for the fourth-year MSci/MSc course Relativistic Waves and Quantum Fields.

Research

Research Interests:

See Gabriele Travaglini’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.

My past and present PhD students:

• Adele Nasti (2006-2009)
• Panos Katsaroumpas (2008-2011)
• Dimitrios Korres (2009-2013)
• Ömer Gürdogan (2010-2014)
• Brenda Penante (2013-2016)
• Martyna Kostacińska Jones (2014-2018)
• Manuel Accettulli Huber (2018-2022)
• Stefano De Angelis (2018-2022)
• Graham Brown (2020-2024)
• Josh Gowdy (2020-2024)
• Pablo Vives Matasan (2023-)