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, Regementsvägen 10
- Postal address:
- Box 524
751 20 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, Regementsvägen 10
- Postal address:
- Box 524
751 20 UPPSALA
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, Regementsvägen 10
- Postal address:
- Box 524
751 20 UPPSALA
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy; Theoretical Physics
- E-mail:
- michele.delzotto@physics.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmlaboratoriet, Regementsvägen 10
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 524
751 20 UPPSALA
- 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:
- 260813 TQFTs from Entanglement, ICBS2026, BIMSA, Beijing
- 250506 Non-invertible symmetries: protected gaplessness, spontaneous breaking and the SymTFT, TEP Seminar, UCLA, Los Angeles (CA)
- 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
- 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: Andrea Grigoletto, Saghar Hosseini, Andrea Sangiovanni, Zhengdi Sun
PhD students: Daniele Migliorati (2023-now), Merlijn van Emmerik (2024-now), David Petrovic (2025-now)
Visiting PhD Student: Andrea Grossutti (SISSA, 2022-23)
Former Postdocs: Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann (2021-22, postdoc at Northeastern University, then lecturer at UCSB), 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), Shani Nadir Meynet (2022-25, postdoc at UPenn), Max Hübner (2024-26, postdoc at Padova University)
Former PhD Students: Robert Moscrop (2018-23, postdoc at Harvard), Elias Riedel Gårding (2021-25, postdoc at MIT)
Former Master Students: Matteo Dell'Acqua (from PISA, SNS, 2023, now PhD at NYU), David Petrovic

Publications
Selection of publications
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SymTFT for continuous symmetries: non-linear realizations and spontaneous breaking
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2026
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Higher Structure of Chiral Symmetry
Part of Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2025
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Global structures from the infrared
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2023
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The Characteristic Dimension of Four-Dimensional $${\mathcal {N}}$$ = 2 SCFTs
Part of Communications in Mathematical Physics, p. 519-540, 2023
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Higher form symmetries and M-theory
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2020
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Universal Features of BPS Strings in Six-dimensional SCFTs
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2018
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Mirror Symmetry for G2-Manifolds: Twisted Connected Sums and Dual Tops
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2017
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F-theory and the Classification of Little Strings
Part of Physical Review D, 2016
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Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2015
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More on the N =2 superconformal systems of type Dp(G)
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2013
Recent publications
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SymTFT for continuous symmetries: non-linear realizations and spontaneous breaking
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2026
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Allowed Coulomb branch scaling dimensions of four-dimensional Ν=2 SCFTs
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2025
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SymTFTs for continuous non-Abelian symmetries
Part of Physics Letters B, 2025
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Remarks on the Higgs branch of 5d conformal matter
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2025
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SymTFTs and non-invertible symmetries of 6d (2,0) SCFTs of type D from M-theory
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2025
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All publications
Articles in journal
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SymTFT for continuous symmetries: non-linear realizations and spontaneous breaking
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2026
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Allowed Coulomb branch scaling dimensions of four-dimensional Ν=2 SCFTs
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2025
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SymTFTs for continuous non-Abelian symmetries
Part of Physics Letters B, 2025
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Remarks on the Higgs branch of 5d conformal matter
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2025
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SymTFTs and non-invertible symmetries of 6d (2,0) SCFTs of type D from M-theory
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2025
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Higher Structure of Chiral Symmetry
Part of Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2025
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The ALE partition functions of M-strings
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2024
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Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2024
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The Higgs branch of heterotic ALE instantons
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2024
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Remarks on geometric engineering, symmetry TFTs and anomalies
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2024
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A new vista on the heterotic moduli space from six and three dimensions
Part of Physical Review D, 2024
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Back to heterotic strings on ALE spaces: Part II. Geometry of T-dual little strings
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2024
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Global structures from the infrared
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2023
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Back to heterotic strings on ALE spaces: Part I. Instantons, 2-groups and T-duality
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2023
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On the 6d origin of non-invertible symmetries in 4d
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2023
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Non-invertible symmetries of class S theories
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2023
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The Characteristic Dimension of Four-Dimensional $${\mathcal {N}}$$ = 2 SCFTs
Part of Communications in Mathematical Physics, p. 519-540, 2023
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Discrete integrable systems, supersymmetric quantum mechanics, and framed BPS states
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2022
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Higher symmetries of 5D orbifold SCFTs
Part of Physical Review D, 2022
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2-Group symmetries and M-theory
Part of SciPost Physics, 2022
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Playing With the Index of M-Theory
Part of Communications in Mathematical Physics, p. 817-865, 2022
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Evidence for an algebra of G2 instantons
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2022
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2-Group Symmetries of 6D Little String Theories and T-Duality
Part of Annales de l'Institute Henri Poincare. Physique theorique, p. 2451-2474, 2021
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Higher form symmetries and M-theory
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2020
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Higher form symmetries of Argyres-Douglas theories
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2020
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Five-dimensional SCFTs and gauge theory phases: an M-theory/type IIA perspective
Part of SciPost Physics, 2019
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Infinitely many M2-instanton corrections to M-theory on G(2)-manifolds
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2018
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About the Absence of Exotics and the Coulomb Branch Formula
Part of Communications in Mathematical Physics, p. 1113-1132, 2018
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Towards Generalized Mirror Symmetry for Twisted Connected Sum G2 Manifolds
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2018
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Topological Strings on Singular Elliptic Calabi-Yau 3-folds and Minimal 6d SCFTs
Part of JHEP, 2018
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Universal Features of BPS Strings in Six-dimensional SCFTs
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2018
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Mirror Symmetry for G2-Manifolds: Twisted Connected Sums and Dual Tops
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2017
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Kinetic Mixing at Strong Coupling
Part of Physical Review D. Particles and fields, 2017
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On Exceptional Instanton Strings
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2017
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6D SCFTs and Phases of 5D Theories
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2017
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On the Defect Group of a 6D SCFT
Part of Letters in Mathematical Physics, p. 765-786, 2016
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Galois covers of N=2 BPS spectra and quantum monodromy
Part of Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2016
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F-theory and the Classification of Little Strings
Part of Physical Review D, 2016
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Complete Graphs, Hilbert Series, and the Higgs branch of the 4d N =2 (An,Am) SCFTs
Part of Nuclear Physics B, p. 439-455, 2015
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Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2015
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Higher S-dualities and Shephard-Todd groups
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2015
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Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2015
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Geometric engineering, mirror symmetry and 6d(1,0) → 4d(N=2)
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2015
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Y systems, Q systems, and 4D N=2 supersymmetric QFT
Part of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2014
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The BPS spectrum of the 4d N=2 SCFTs H1, H2, D4, E6, E7, E8
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2013
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More on the N =2 superconformal systems of type Dp(G)
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2013
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Infinitely many N = 2 SCFT with ADE flavor symmetry
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2013
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4d $\mathcalN =$2 Gauge Theories and Quivers: the Non-Simply Laced Case
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2012
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Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2012
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More Arnold’s $\mathcalN =$ 2 superconformal gauge theories
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2011
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On Arnold’s 14 ‘exceptional’ N=2 superconformal gauge theories
Part of Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2011
Conference papers
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6D heterotic little string theories and F-theory geometry: An introduction
Part of String-Math 2022, p. 179-199, 2024