Quantum gravity & black holes
The paradoxes surrounding black holes — information loss, firewalls, holographic reconstruction — as a window into quantum gravity.
Research
Research lines
Nine connected lines of work in the foundations and philosophy of physics, from the interior of black holes to the conditions under which realism about fundamental theories remains defensible.
Relational quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics approached as a genuinely relational theory: measurement, entanglement, and the ontological status of quantum information.
Non-relativistic gravity & spacetime structure
What spacetime looks like outside the relativistic setting — Newton–Cartan and Carrollian geometries, torsion, and the structure of time.
Supersymmetry & supergravity
The ontology of supersymmetric theories: superspace, supermanifolds, and the geometry–matter distinction in supergravity.
EFT & emergence
How physical structure emerges across scales — effective field theories, renormalization, and higher-form symmetries.
Dualities
When two theories are physically equivalent, what do they share? The work focuses on duality, inter-theory relations, and their ontological limits.
Meta-ontology & realism
What does realism about fundamental physics require? The work develops Progress Crucial Realism — grounded in the indispensable structures of physical theories.
Ethics & philosophy of AI
How should institutions — scientific, educational, civic — respond to generative AI? The work is developed within the AI Oath project, on ethical standards for responsible AI use.
Quantum information & information theory
What is information in quantum mechanics? The work develops a notion of relational information grounded in entanglement rather than epistemic states, distinguishing it from QBism, Wheeler’s “it from bit”, and standard communication-theoretic accounts.