Prof. Leonardo Senatores' group

Our group's research spans various topics in Theoretical Cosmology, with the aim at understanding what happened at the beginning of the universe and what that implies for our knowledge of the fundamental laws of physics. Our interests go from the phenomenology of Inflation to data analysis of the galaxy distribution. We use techniques such as Effective Field Theory as well more Mathematical techniques such as Mean Curvature Flow.

Concerning the theory of Inflation, we are interested in studying its most general phenomenological implications and its quantum field theory properties, which includes more in general the behavior of quantum fields in dynamical spacetimes.

We are also interested in studying how inflation gets started out of inhomogeneous initial conditions. Progress is being made thanks to interesting connections with the fields of Geometry and Topology in Mathematics, as well as by using numerical simulations.

We are also interested in enabling to extract as much information as possible about the early universe from observations. To this purpose, we develop an Effective Field Theory that rigorously describes the clustering of galaxies at long distances and to apply it to analyze the data from galaxy surveys.