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Ph.D. defense

May 22, 2025

Matteo Calisti today defended his thesis “Ricci curvature bounds and singularities in non-smooth spacetimes” (supervised by Michael Kunzinger, Clemens Sämann and Roland Steinbauer) and earned his Ph.D. with top marks.

The project has started

October 1, 2024

The project has started today. Samuel Borza and Karim Mosani have joined the team as PostDocs and Joe Barton and Miguel Prados Abad as Ph.D. students. Also Marta Salamo and Sebastian Gieger have started their Ph.D. studies on topics closely related to the general directions of the project.

Our project has been approved for funding by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

March 12, 2024

Photo of the project leaders
Photo of the project leaders: from left to right: Clemens Sämann, Raquel Perales, Roland Steinbauer (coordinator), Chiara Rigoni, Michael Kunzinger (copyright: FWF, Klaus Ranger)

We are very glad to announce that our Emerging Field project on A new Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & Beyond has been approved for funding by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) with an amount of over 7 million euros.

At this link you can find the press announcement of the FWF.