Team overview page 〉Details for: Carlos Pastor Marcos
Research interests:
Theoretical Physics, Cosmology, Gravity, Quantum Field Theory, High-Energy Physics, Quantum Gravity, Astrophysics, Asymptotic Safety, Metric-Affine & Differential Geometry, Modified Gravity, Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, Dark Energy, Dark Matter.
Short summary of current research:
In my current research, I am mostly working towards a UV completion of gravity using QFT methods and functional renormalization group (FRG) techniques. In particular, I focus on the asymptotic safety (AS) approach to quantum gravity and study Generalized Proca theories: vector-tensor theories with important cosmological applications. In parallel, I derive autoparallel motion and conservation laws for fields in generalized (metric-affine) geometries; and study compact objects and photon rings/lensing around rotating black holes in different frameworks (different deformations of the Kerr spacetime). I also remain active on classical modified gravity theories and have worked on f(Q) gravity: a theory generalizing the non-metricity formulation of GR. Past research topics include developing statistical models for inference of gravitational waves from fast-rotating core-collapse supernovae (CCSN), and work on Ultra Light Bosonic Dark Matter (ULBDM).