Livia Ferro

Dr. Livia Ferro serves as an Associate Professor in Research Mathematics and Theoretical Physics within the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science. Her primary research focuses on fundamental aspects of quantum field theory and particle physics through geometric and algebraic frameworks.

Her research expertise centers on scattering amplitudes in supersymmetric theories, geometric formulations of scattering amplitudes, and quantum integrability in gauge theories. Key contributions include pioneering work on the momentum amplituhedron, celestial superamplitudes, and positive geometries for unitarity. Her fingerprint reveals deep engagement with Scattering Amplitude (100%), Yang-Mills Theory (48%), and Amplituhedron (27%) concepts, demonstrating specialization in advanced mathematical structures for quantum interactions.

Current research trends show consistent high-impact publications in Journal of High Energy Physics since 2006, with accelerating output since 2017. Recent work explores fibration geometries for loop amplitudes (2025), prescriptive unitarity (2024), and celestial Grassmannian formulations (2021), indicating progression toward unifying geometric methods across perturbative regimes.

Dr. Ferro leads the active Modern Foundations of Scattering Amplitudes project (2024-2028) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), focusing on fundamental interactions in elementary particle physics. Her collaborative network spans international institutions with significant activity in scattering amplitude research since 2020.

Her research group operates within the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, contributing to the university's theoretical physics cluster specializing in quantum field theory formalisms and geometric approaches to particle interactions.