Michele Del Zotto

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Mathematics; Academic staff

Telephone:: +46 18 471 31 92
E-mail:: michele.delzotto@math.uu.se
Visiting address:: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
Postal address:: Box 480
751 06 UPPSALA

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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Mathematics; Centre for Geometry and Physics

E-mail:: michele.delzotto@math.uu.se
Visiting address:: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
Postal address:: Box 480
751 06 UPPSALA

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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Mathematics; Geometry and Physics

Telephone:: +46 18 471 31 92
E-mail:: michele.delzotto@math.uu.se
Visiting address:: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
Postal address:: Box 480
751 06 UPPSALA

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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy; Theoretical Physics

E-mail:: michele.delzotto@physics.uu.se
Visiting address:: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Regementsvägen 10
Postal address:: Box 516
751 37 UPPSALA

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Academic merits:: Docent

Short presentation

I work at the interface of quantum field theory, string theory and mathematics. A central theme for my research is to develop new tools for understanding non-perturbative systems. I am the principal investigator of an ERC consolidator grant on the higher structure of symmetries, and the deputy director of the Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetries.

Keywords

quantum field theory
string theory
supersymmetry
conformal symmetry
generalized symmetries

Biography

I have received my PhD in 2013 from SISSA (Trieste, IT), followed by an appointment as a research fellow at Harvard University (2013-2016), and then as a research assistant professor at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics in Stony Brook, NY (2016-2018). Before joining the faculty at Uppsala University, I have been a lecturer at the Department of Mathematical Sciences of Durham University, UK (2018-2020).

Research

Links to all my works can be found on googlescholar or inSPIREs.

Here is a selection of online recordings for some of my seminars:

240815 Emergent non-invertible symmetries bridging UV and IR phases, Symmetries 2024, Oxford
240418 Exploring the higher structure of symmetry, CERN, theory seminar
230306 Uncharted territories in geometric engineering, Strings and Geometry 2023, Philadelphia, PA
221018 On the 6d origin of non-invertible symmetries, Quantum Matter in Phyisics and Mathematics seminar, CMSA, Harvard, MA
220513 Back to Heterotic Instantons on ALE spaces: F-theory, 2-groups, and T-duality, Strings and Geometry 2022, Utrecht, NL
220308 Global structures from the infrared, Symmetry Seminar
211128 Geometric engineering and correspondences, String-Math Seminar, Berkeley, CA
200928 Higher form symmetries and geometric engineering, KIAS autumn symposium
190617 5d SCFTs and their gauge theory phases, CERN, String Geometry and String Phenomenology Institute
180125 Six-dimensional Theories, Topological Strings, and Modular Invariance, Banff workshop Geometry and Physics of F-theory
170622 Pollica lecture about BPS quivers and the classification of 4d N=2 theories,
170206 Mirror Symmetry for $G_2$ Manifolds: Twisted Connected Sums and Dual Tops, seminar for TAMU, Texas, USA
161112 On Exceptional Instanton Strings, Mathematical string theory special session at the fall southeastern sectional meeting of the American Mathematical Society

Thanks to the support of the ERC (StG MEMO, CoG HIGH), the Uppsala University co-funding, the Simons Foundation, and the Vetenskapsrådet I have the opportunity of supervising a research group based across the Mathematics Department and the Theoretical Physics Division of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Postdoctoral researchers: Shani Nadir Meynet, Max Hübner, Andrea Sangiovanni

PhD students: Elias Riedel Gårding (2021-now), Daniele Migliorati (2023-now), Merlijn van Emmerik (2024-now)

Visiting PhD Student: Andrea Grossutti (SISSA, 2022-23)

Former Postdocs: Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann (2021-22, postdoc at Northeastern University, Boston (MA)), Muyang Liu (2021-23, postdoc at the Centre For Quantum Mathematics, SDU, Denmark), Guglielmo Lockhart (2022-23, ERC StG at Bonn U., Germany), Vladimir Bashmakov (2020-23, postdoc at Radboud University), Marco Fazzi (2023, faculty at Sheffield University), Mario De Marco (2022-23, postdoc at ULB), Azeem Hasan (2021-24, faculty at IBA, Pakistan), Kaiwen Sun (2023-24, faculty at USTC, hefei, China).

Former PhD Students: Robert Moscrop (2018-23, postdoc at Harvard)

Former Master Students: Matteo Dell'Acqua (from PISA, SNS, 2023, now PhD at NYU)