Kiritsis Elias

Elias Kiritsis is a Professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete since 1999. He holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (1988) and has held research positions at UC Berkeley, École Normale Supérieure Paris, and CERN (1988-1998). His research focuses on theoretical high energy physics and cosmology, leveraging quantum field theory and string theory to explore non-perturbative phenomena, holography, supersymmetry, and black hole dynamics.

• Education:
  • Bachelor's Degree: University of Athens (1984)
  • Ph.D. in Conformal Field Theories: California Institute of Technology (1988)
• Research Interests:
  • String theory and M-theory
  • Holographic QCD and strongly coupled systems
  • Cosmological models and de Sitter/anti-de Sitter dynamics
  • Supersymmetry breaking mechanisms

He received a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016 for research on holography's connection to the Standard Model. His work spans theoretical frameworks linking quantum gravity to observable phenomena, with recent emphasis on holographic RG flows, axion physics, and gravitational instabilities in curved spacetimes.

Key contributions include studies on black hole thermodynamics, neutrino transport in quark-gluon plasma, and the interplay between holography and cosmological inflation. His research also explores emergent gravity concepts and dark matter candidates via quasi-extremal primordial black holes.

• Awards:
  • ERC Consolidator Grant (2016)
• Grants/Projects:
  • "Gravity, Holography and the Standard Model" (ERC-2016)

He is affiliated with the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics and the Crete Center for Theoretical Physics (CCTP), collaborating on cutting-edge projects in quantum complexity and nanotechnology through the CCQCN.