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Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics Group

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, October 2022–onwards.

Associate Professor, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, January 2017–September 2022.

Assistant Professor, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, September 2013–December 2016.

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard University, September 2012–August 2013.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Physics Department, McGill University, July 2009–August 2012.

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Michigan, 2009. Dissertation: String Theory Effects on Black Hole Physics. Advisor: Prof. Finn Larsen.

Licenciatura en Astronomia, Maximum Distinction, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2004. Advisor: Prof. Maximo Bañados.

Publications

Revisiting Extremal Couplings in AdS/CFT
A Castro, PJ Martinez
(2024)
Spinning up the spool: Massive spinning fields in 3d quantum gravity
R Bourne, A Castro, JR Fliss
(2024)
The light we can see: Extracting black holes from weak Jacobi forms
L Apolo, S Bintanja, A Castro, D Liska
(2024)
Conformal field theories dual to quantum gravity with strongly coupled matter
L Apolo, A Belin, S Bintanja, A Castro, CA Keller
– Physical Review D
(2023)
108,
l061901
Near-Extremal Limits of Warped Black Holes
A Aggarwal, A Castro, S Detournay, B Mühlmann
(2023)
Coupling Fields to 3D Quantum Gravity via Chern-Simons Theory
A Castro, I Coman, JR Fliss, C Zukowski
(2023)
Keeping matter in the loop in dS$_3$ quantum gravity
A Castro, I Coman, JR Fliss, C Zukowski
(2023)
Near-Extremal Limits of de Sitter Black Holes
A Castro, F Mariani, C Toldo
(2022)
Conformal field theories dual to quantum gravity with strongly coupled matter
L Apolo, A Belin, S Bintanja, A Castro, CA Keller
(2022)
The stranger things of symmetric product orbifold CFTs
N Benjamin, S Bintanja, A Castro, J Hollander
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2022)
2022,
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Room

B2.19