Andrea Campoleoni

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Research interests: higher-spin gauge theories; gravitational theories in three space-time dimensions; asymptotic symmetries; gravitational waves.

Bio sketch: I grew up in Luino, Italy, and I studied physics at the University of Pisa and at Scuola Normale Superiore, where I was admitted as “Allievo Ordinario”. In 2009 I obtained a PhD in Physics from Scuola Normale Superiore, working under the supervision of Augusto Sagnotti. I then held postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics of Potsdam (Germany), at the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). In 2018 I joined the University of Mons as tenured research associate of the F.R.S.-FNRS. In 2015 I was the recipient of the Renato Musto Award for Theoretical Physics and in 2019 I was awarded a FNRS incentive grant in scientific research – MIS.

My early research focused primarily on higher-spin theories—namely, gauge theories involving fields with spin greater than two—and on gravitational theories in three spacetime dimensions. Within these frameworks, I extensively studied the characterization of asymptotic symmetries in the presence of higher-spin fields. More recently, I also became interested in holography in asymptotically flat spacetimes, in particular through approaches based on boundary Carrollian field theories. These arise as limits of relativistic field theories when the speed of light is taken to vanish and thus provide a challenging and stimulating theoretical framework. I am also interested in the modeling of higher-spin collective excitations in condensed-matter systems and of gravitational-wave emission from binary systems.

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching:

  • Statistical Physics (BAC3)
  • General Relativity (MA1)
  • Advanced Topics in Gravitation (MA2)

Selected publications:

  • A. Campoleoni, A. Delfante, D. Francia and C. Heissenberg, Finite actions and asymptotic charges at null infinity for any spin, Phys. Lett. B 870 (2025), 139908 [arXiv:2507.19310 [hep-th]].
  • X. Bekaert, A. Campoleoni and S. Pekar, Holographic Carrollian conformal scalars, JHEP 05 (2024), 242 [arXiv:2404.02533 [hep-th]].
  • A. Campoleoni, H. Gonzalez, B. Oblak and M. Riegler, BMS Modules in Three Dimensions, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 31 (2016) no.12, 1650068 [arXiv:1603.03812 [hep-th]].
  • A. Campoleoni, S. Fredenhagen, S. Pfenninger and S. Theisen, Asymptotic symmetries of three-dimensional gravity coupled to higher-spin fields, JHEP 11 (2010) 007 [arXiv:1008.4744 [hep-th]].
  • A. Campoleoni, D. Francia, J. Mourad and A. Sagnotti, Unconstrained Higher Spins of Mixed Symmetry. I. Bose Fields, Nucl. Phys. B 815 (2009) 289-367 [arXiv:0810.4350 [hep-th]].

 

Contact

Université de Mons

Bâtiment de Vinci

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7000 Mons

andrea.campoleoni@umons.ac.be

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