Leonardo Modesto

Associate Professor

Ph.D. (2004), Torino University, Italy

Tel: +86-187-21714036

E-mail: Lmodesto@fudan.edu.cn

Experiences:
2000 Laurea in Physics, Pisa University (Italy)

2004 PhD in Physics, Torino University (Italy)

2008-2012 Post-Doc Fellowship, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo (Canada)

2005-2007 Post-Doc Fellowship, Department of Physics, Bologna (Italy)

2004-2005 Post-Doc Fellowship, Centre di Physique Theorique of the Centre National de la Recherche (C.N.R.S), Marseille (France)

2004-2004 Post-Doc Fellowship, Department of Physics, Torino University, Torino (Italy)

2012-Present Associate Professor, Fudan University

Teaching and Research Interests
Teaching: Particle Physics, Quantum Field Theory and String Theory

Research interests: quantum gravity, quantum field theory, classical and quantum gravity phenomenology, classical and quantum black holes, physics beyond the standard model of particle physics and cosmology.

Published 1 review paper and about 32 research articles on refereed journals with high impact factor. H-index: 18 (INSPIRE)

Selected Publications:
1. Leonardo Modesto, Shinji Tsujikawa, Super-renormalizable or  finite completion of the Starobinsky theory, [arXiv:1308.1413 [hep-th]];

2.Leonardo Modesto, Shinji Tsujikawa, Non-local Massive Gravity, [arXiv:1307.6969 [hep-th]];

3. Leonardo Modesto, Super-renormalizable Quantum Gravity, Phys. Rev. D 86, 044005 (2012) [arXiv:1107.2403 [hep-th]];

4. Leonardo Modesto, John W. Moffat, Piero Nicolini Black holes in an ultraviolet complete quantum gravity, Phys. Lett. B 695, 397-400 (2011) [arXiv:1010.0680 [gr-qc]];

5. Leonardo Modesto, Piero Nicolini, Charged rotating noncommutative black holes, Phys. Rev. D82 (2010) 104035 [arXiv:1005.5605 [gr-qc]];

6. Leonardo Modesto, Piero Nicolini, Spectral dimension of a quantum universe, Phys. Rev. D 81 (2010) 104040 [arXiv:gr-qc/0605123];

7. Leonardo Modesto , Isabeau Premont-Schwarz, Self-dual Black Holes in LQG: Theory and Phenomenology, Phys. Rev. D 80, 064041 (2009), [arXiv:0905.3170];