Leonardo Rastelli

Leonardo Rastelli is a Professor at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP) at Stony Brook University. He earned his Ph.D. from MIT in 2000 and held positions at Princeton University as a Dicke Fellow (2000–2002) and Assistant Professor (2002–2006) before joining YITP in 2006. His research spans quantum field theory and string theory, focusing on superconformal field theories via the bootstrap program.

• Key Research Areas: AdS/CFT correspondence, superconformal field theories, string field theory, mathematical physics, numerical experimentation.

Scientific Recognition:

• Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
• Simons Fellowship
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Blavatnik National Finalist

His work combines analytical methods and numerical approaches to explore fundamental questions in theoretical physics, particularly in charting the space of superconformal field theories using symmetry principles and consistency constraints.