The EmerGe collaboration brings together researchers from various institutions who share a common interest in understanding the fundamental nature of spacetime. Our members diverse expertise spans different approaches to quantum gravity, quantum information applied to gravity, quantum foundations, and philosophy of physics.
Andrea's research explores topics at the broad intersection of gravity, quantum information theory, quantum foundations, and quantum field theory. His work includes investigations of low-energy quantum gravity experiments, the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the direction of times, locality and causality, and quantum geometry.
Currently working at IQOQI Vienna, Andrea is also co-chair of the Basic Research Community for Physics, a non-for profit organisation of physicists to promote open collaboration and exploration of foundational topics in physics.
Eugenia specializes in quantum gravity and holography, with particular emphasis on gravitational path integrals and understanding entanglement entropy in quantum gravity. Her research explores the fundamental connections between quantum information theory and spacetime geometry.
She has made significant contributions to understanding entanglement entropy in holographic systems and the emergence of bulk geometry from boundary quantum states. Her work at Western University provides new insights into the fundamental nature of spacetime and quantum information.
Florian's research sits at the crossroads between particle physics and cosmology. His work explores the phenomenology and theoretical consistency of braneworld models, gravitational approaches to address the cosmological constant problem, and effective field theories for dark energy model building.
He received his PhD from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2016. After postdoc positions at the University of Nottingham and the Centre for Cosmology and Particle Physics Phenomenology in Denmark, he joined Nordita in 2020 as a fellow in cosmology and became a Nordita Assistant Professor in 2022 after winning a starting grant from the Swedish Research Council.
Guilherme's research focuses on quantum foundations and quantum gravity, particularly attempting to unveil how space and time could be emergent from quantum mechanics. His background includes a PhD in theoretical cosmology under Prof. Robert Brandenberger at McGill University, where he was selected as the best PhD student of 2019 by the Centre de Recherches Mathématique.
He first joined Nordita as an independent postdoctoral fellow, and now has a joint position as a senior researcher at Nordita and lecturer at the Stockholm University Department of Philosophy. He is also invested in community building, having created the successful outreach program called ScientiFika.
Jan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna. His research focuses on quantum foundations, particularly investigating quantum reference frames, quantum measurement theory, and gauge theories.
His work aims to develop rigorous mathematical frameworks for describing quantum systems with reference frame dependencies, contributing to our understanding of the relational aspects of quantum theory and the foundations of quantum mechanics.
Joakim's research is concentrated around theories of multiple spin-2 fields and how they interact. His work investigates the fundamental properties of these fields and their implications for our understanding of gravitational theories beyond general relativity.
As a PhD student in the Department of Physics at Stockholm University, he explores theoretical frameworks that could provide new insights into the nature of gravity and its relationship to quantum theory. His research contributes to the broader field of theoretical physics at the Fysikum department.
Niels is a Philosopher of Physics at the University of Geneva where he works as a collaborateur scientifique in the group of Prof. Dr. Chris Wüthrich. His major interests lie in reasoning in physics, the ontology and epistemology of spacetime, and in the foundations of spacetime theories.
He studied Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy at Münster, Lund, Oxford, and Cambridge. His PhD thesis focused on methodological strategies for finding a theory of quantum gravity. He has held visiting fellowships at the Inductive Metaphysics Project and the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences at the University of Oslo, and co-founded the philosophiederphysik.de initiative to promote Philosophy of Physics in German-speaking countries.
