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Dr Francesco Muia

I am currently a postdoc in Cambridge, with a Stephen Hawking fellowship.

My research interests range from string phenomenology to the physics of the early Universe.

I am a collaborator of the GRChombo project: I am currently using this code to simulate preheating in the early Universe.

I launched along with a few collaborators the UHF-GW initiative, for the development of ultra-high-frequency gravitational wave science, see our webpage.

You can find my publications at this link.

I've recently written a popular article for The Conversation about gravitational waves from the early Universe.

Publications

String thermodynamics in and out of equilibrium: Boltzmann equations and random walks
AR Frey, R Mahanta, A Maharana, F Muia, F Quevedo, G Villa
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2024)
2024,
112
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP03(2024)112)
A faster growth of perturbations in an early matter dominated epoch: Primordial black holes and gravitational waves
S Das, A Maharana, F Muia
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2022)
515,
13
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/stac1620)
Challenges and opportunities of gravitational-wave searches at MHz to GHz frequencies
N Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, A Bauswein, G Cella, S Clesse, AM Cruise, V Domcke, DG Figueroa, A Geraci, M Goryachev, H Grote, M Hindmarsh, F Muia, N Mukund, D Ottaway, M Peloso, F Quevedo, A Ricciardone, J Steinlechner, S Steinlechner, S Sun, ME Tobar, F Torrenti, C Ünal, G White
– Living Reviews in Relativity
(2021)
24,
4
(doi: 10.1007/s41114-021-00032-5)
GRChombo: An adaptable numerical relativity code for fundamental physics
T Andrade, LA Salo, JC Aurrekoetxea, J Bamber, K Clough, R Croft, ED Jong, A Drew, A Duran, PG Ferreira, P Figueras, H Finkel, T França, B-X Ge, C Gu, T Helfer, J Jäykkä, C Joana, M Kunesch, K Kornet, EA Lim, F Muia, Z Nazari, M Radia, J Ripley, P Shellard, U Sperhake, D Traykova, S Tunyasuvunakool, Z Wang, JY Widdicombe, K Wong
– The Journal of Open Source Software
(2021)
6,
3703
(doi: 10.21105/joss.03703)
Lorentzian vacuum transitions: Open or closed universes?
S Cespedes, SP de Alwis, F Muia, F Quevedo
– Physical Review D
(2021)
104,
026013
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.026013)
Oscillon collapse to black holes
Z Nazari, M Cicoli, K Clough, F Muia
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2021)
2021,
027
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/027)
Quantum Transitions Between Minkowski and de Sitter Spacetimes
SP de Alwis, F Muia, V Pasquarella, F Quevedo
– Fortschritte der Physik
(2020)
68,
2000069
(doi: 10.1002/prop.202000069)
The fate of dense scalar stars
F Muia, M Cicoli, K Clough, F Pedro, F Quevedo, GP Vacca
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2019)
2019,
044
(doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/07/044)
De Sitter vs Quintessence in String Theory
M Cicoli, S de Alwis, A Maharana, F Muia, F Quevedo
– Fortschritte der Physik
(2018)
67,
1800079
(doi: 10.1002/prop.201800079)
Moduli stars
S Krippendorf, F Muia, F Quevedo
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2018)
2018,
70
(doi: 10.1007/jhep08(2018)070)
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Research Group

Centre for Theoretical Cosmology

Email

fm538@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

B0.33

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