Black hole geometries are interpreted as thermal states and one of the main areas of research nowadays is the identification of their microstates.
Since the beginning of the project, I have studied toy models of black holes that could teach aspects of black hole microstates. In one case, I have considered a quantum mechanical toy model, in a perturbative framework; in parallel, I have investigated the time evolutions of wormhole geometries, by studying a double-sided, eternal black hole in anti de Sitter spacetime.
In the first setup it was possible to show how some paradoxes, appearing in the treatment of black hole evaporation, also appear in simple quantum mechanics systems, due to a wrong definition of the perturbative observables. In the setup of eternal black hole, preliminary results show that the semiclassical gravity phase space is not sensitive to the discreteness of the spectrum, as it appears from the CFT side.
Holography has been used also to gather insight on superconformal quantum field theories. First, supersymmetric AdS vacua have been constructed in 7 dimensional gauged supergravity, together with the identification of non-supersymmetric counterparts. Moreover, these vacua, and the possibility of constructing scalar flows between them, perfectly match the conjectured structure of 6d superconformal field theories.
We have contributed to the dissemination of these results through seminars in research institutions around the world, we have organized several scientific events at CERN on quantum gravity and black holes.
Finally, we have participated to a large number of outreach events and gender-awareness initiatives, of which we co-organized an event at CERN.
