mariana c. graña education scientific activities - IPhT

MARIANA C. GRAÑA
Institut de Physique Théorique
CEA / Saclay
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Phone: + 331 69 08 72 78
Fax : + 331 69 08 81 20
Date of Birth: February 9, 1973
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality: French, Argentine
email: [email protected]
http://ipht.cea.fr/Pisp/39/mariana.grana.html
EDUCATION
Ph.D.:
University of California - Santa Barbara, United States, December 2002
Thesis title : “Supersymmetric IIB Solutions with fluxes and their effects on D-branes”.
Thesis director: Prof. Joseph Polchinski. GPA : 4.0 / 4.0
B.S. :
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997
Physics. GPA : 3.8 / 4.0
HDR:
(Habilitation à diriger des recherches). Ecole Normale Superieure, February 2015
Thesis title: “Generalized geometry of fux compactifications”
Languages: Trilingual in English, Spanish and French
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
Research career
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Permanent Researcher
o Service de Physique Théorique, CEA/Saclay, from October 2005
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Post-Doctorate
o Ecole Normale Supérieure, France, Marie Curie Fellowship, January 2004 to October 2005
o Centre de Physique Théorique, Ecole Polytechnique, France, February to December 2003
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Research Assistant
o University of California at Santa Barbara, United States, 2000-2002
o University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997-1998
Fellowships
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Marie Curie Intra European Post-Doctoral Fellowship, March 2004 to October 2005
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Dissertation Fellowship, University of California at Santa Barbara, September to December
2002
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Ferrando-Fithian Fellowship, University of California at Santa Barbara, September 1998
Grants
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Principal Investigator in the ERC Starting Grant “The Low Energy Limit of String Theory and
the Observable World”, February 2011 to October 2016.
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Co-investigator in the research grant “Structure of vacuum, topological strings and black holes,"
from the French “Agence Nationale de la Recherche." September 2009 to May 2010.
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Co-investigator in the binational France-Argentina travel and collaboration grant “Generalizing
Geometry in String Theory : its phenomenological implications”, from ECOS-Sud 2009-2011.
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Co-investigator in the binational France-England travel and collaboration PICS grant "Aspects
of String Theory with fluxes" 2010-2012.
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Co-investigator in the travel and collaboration grant “Generalizing geometry in string theory”,
from MIT-France Seed fund for collaborative research 2006-2007.
Organization of international conferences and workshops
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« Second workshop on string theory and gender », IHP, Paris, June 2016 (co-organized
with R. Minasian and M. Petrini, 50 participants) https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/12356/
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Workshop « de Sitter and microstate landscapes in String Theory », CEA/Saclay, June 2015
(co-organized with I. Bena, R. Minasian and S. Kuperstein, 70 participants)
https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/11522/
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18 Itzykson meeting “Frontiers of String Theory”, CEA/Saclay, July 2013 (co-organized with
I. Bena, R. Minasian and P. Vanhove, 90 participants)
http://ipht.cea.fr/Meetings/Itzykson2013/index.php
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Forum de la théorie, CEA/Saclay, April 2013 (co-organized with M. Barthelemy and R.
Pechanski, 100 participants) http://ipht.cea.fr/Meetings/ForumTheory2013/
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Workshop “The supersymmetric, the extremal and the ugly - solutions in string theory”, Saclay,
November 2011 (co-organized with I. Bena, S. Giusto, M. Petrini, R. Russo, 50 participants)
http://www.strings.ph.qmul.ac.uk/~theory/pics2011/index.htm
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Workshop “Hierarchies and Symmetries”, Jussieu, Paris, September 2011 (co-organized with
K. Benakli and E. Dudas, 30 participants)
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String Phenomenology 2010, College de France, Paris, July 2010 (co-organized with K.
Benakli and E. Dudas, 150 participants) http://stringpheno.cpht.polytechnique.fr
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14 Itzykson meeting “Recent Advances in String Theory”, CEA/Saclay, June 2009 (coorganized with I. Bena, R. Minasian and P. Vanhove, 80 participants)
http://ipht.cea.fr/Meetings/Itzykson2009/index.php
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Conference talks
• Workshop on Double Field Theory, ETH, Zurich, January 2016
• Stringy geometry, Mainz, September 2015
• The string theory Universe, Leuven, September 2015
• SUSY 2013, Trieste, August 2013
• String Phenomenology 2013, Hamburg, July 2013
• Forum de la théorie, CEA/Saclay, April 2013
• 41st Ahrensoop Conference, Berlin, August 2012, review talk
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Latinoamerican Workshop on HEP: Particles and strings, Havana, July 2012, review talk
• String Phenomenology 2012, Cambridge, June 2012
• Mathematical Aspects of String and M-theory, Newton Institute, Cambridge, January 2012
• Strings 2011, Uppsala, July 2011
• Generalized Geometries and String Theory, University of Texas A&M, March 2011
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D-brane Instatons, Wall-crossing and Microstate counting, ICTP, Trieste, November 2010
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12 Marcel Grossmann meeting, Paris, July 2009
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New perspectives in String Theory, GGI, Florence, May 2009
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VII Latin American Symposium on High Energy Physics, Bariloche, Argentina, January 2009
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Geometrical aspects of string theory, Nordita, Stockholm, October 2008
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39 Ahrensoop Conference, Berlin, October 2008
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String Phenomenology 2007, Frascati, June 2007
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Generalized Geometry and Flux compactifications, Hamburg, February 2007
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38 Ahrensoop Conference, Berlin, September 2006
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Generalized Geometries, Brno, September 2006
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Journées Physique et Mathématiques, IHES, Bures sur Yvette, November 2005
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Colloque du SPhT, La Rochelle, October 2005
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Workshop on N=1 Compactifications, Fields Institute, Toronto, March 2005
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Euro GDR supersymmetry, Frascati, November 2004
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RTN Workshop The quantum structure of spacetime and the geometric nature of fundamental
interactions, Crete, September 2004
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Strings 2004, Paris, July 2004
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DESY Theory Workshop on GUTs and Branes, Hamburg, September 2003
Invited Seminars
King’s college, London, February 2014; University Tor Vergata, Rome, May 2013; University of
Milano-Bicocca, January 2013; University of Bonn, November 2012; University of Lyon, March
2012, University of Amsterdam, October 2015, February 2011; University of Heidelberg, May 2010;
Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina, October 2013, February 2012, January 2011 and February
2010; MIT, Boston, September 2007, Max Planck Institute, Postdam, February 2007, Institut Henri
Poincaré, Paris, September 2010, November 2008, October 2007, December 2006 and December
2003; Oxford University, January 2013 and November 2006, University of Durham, June 2006;
University of Wales, Swansea, May 2006; Cern Theory Division, Geneva, April 2006 and January
2004; Utrecht University, December 2005; SISSA, Trieste, november 2005; Université Libre de
Bruxelles, June 2005; Max-Planck Institute, Munich, May 2005; Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
November 2004; Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, November 2004; Humboldt University,
Berlin, April 2004; CEA, Service de Physique Théorique, Saclay, January 2005 and April 2004;
Universidad de Buenos Aires, October 2013, February 2012, December 2010, November 2009,
December 2008, February 2007, 2005 and 2004; Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, April 2005 and
January 2004; Imperial College, London, January 2004; Universität Hamburg, July 2003; Ecole
Polytechnique, Palaiseau, November 2002; University of California at Santa Barbara, April 2002;
Caltech-USC Theoretical Physics Center, Los Angeles, March 2002
Science popularisation talks
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“La théorie des cordes” , IPhT, CEA/Saclay, February 2016
Other
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Member of Editorial Board of European Physics Journal C
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Reviewer for grant proposals from ERC, ESF, NSF, Royal Society, NWO (Belgium), PICT
(Argentina), VQR (Italy), Conicyt (Chile), HRZZ (Croatia)
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Referee for JHEP, Nuclear Physics B, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Communications in
Mathematical Physics, Physics Letters B, Europhysics Letters.
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Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews
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Member of IPhT Institute council and IPhT representative to the council of the “Direction de
Sciences de la Matiere” at CEA, 2012-2016. Member of IPhT scientific council, 2014-2016
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Leader of the Mathematical Physics group at IPhT, 2016-present
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Jury of five Ph.D. theses in string theory
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Co-organizer of String Theory in Greater Paris’ seminars, 2005 to present
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Discussion Sessions
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Physics Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, United States, 1998-2002
o Introductory Physics for undergraduate students, mostly Biology majors (4 quarters)
o General Relativity for graduate students in Physics (6 quarters)
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Physics Department, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1995-1998
o Wave Mechanics for Physics undergraduate students (1 semester)
o Advanced Electromagnetism for Physics undergraduate students (4 semesters)
Lectures
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High Energy Physics Master, Ecole Polytechnique, 2016-date
String Theory (1 trimester)
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Mathematics Department, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1995-1998
Linear Algebra for first year students in Science and Engineering (6 semesters)
Short Lecture courses
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“Effective actions”, GGI school String-Pheno-Cosmo 2015, Florence, October 2015
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“String Compactifications”, IPhT, CEA/Saclay, March-April 2013
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“Generalized Geometries and String Compactifications”, University of Buenos Aires,
November 2012
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“Topics in compactifications, dualities and phenomenology in String Theory”, University of
Buenos Aires, October 2011
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“Compactifications of string theory and generalized geometry “, School on Geometric,
Algebraic and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory, Villa de Leyva, Colombia,
July 2011
“Flux compactifications”, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 2006
“Flux compactifications and generalized geometries”, RTN Winter School, CERN, Geneva,
January 2006
“Generalized Complex Geometry from Supergravity backgrounds”, Perimeter Institute,
Waterloo, Canada, February 2005
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Other
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Approved course “Teaching and Learning with new medias”, University of California at Santa
Barbara, 2 quarters 2001
Ph.D. Students
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Francesco Orsi, graduate student, October 2008 - February 2012, funded by CEA fellowship,
now post-doctoral fellow in computational neuroscience at Bern University.
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Stefano Massai, graduate student since October 2010, funded by CEA fellowship, now
postdoctoral fellow in string theory at LMU, Munich.
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Praxitelis Ntokos, since October 2013, funded by the Paris Region Doctoral School and the
Foundation P2IO
Master and Internship students
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Praxitelis Ntokos, master student from Ecole Polytechnique, March-July 2013.
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Andre Coimbra, Ph.D. internship student from Imperial College, March-November 2013.
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Alejandro Rosabal, Ph.D. internship student from Instituto Balseiro, Argentina, July-October
2013.
Post-doctoral fellows on personal grant
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Diego Marques, April 2010-September 2012, now on permanent researcher at University of
Buenos Aires.
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Maxime Gabella, October 2011-September 2013, now post-doctoral fellow at University of
Princeton.
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Thomas Van Riet,, October 2011-September 2012, now permanent researcher at K.U. Leuven .
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Hagen Triendl, October 2012-September 2013, now post-doctoral fellow at CERN.
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Raffaele Savelli, October 2013-September 2016.
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Carlos Shabahzi, October 2013-September 2016.