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Mauricio Gamonal

Graduate Student
Mauricio Gamonal.
Mauricio
Gamonal
Graduate Student
External Affiliations
Interests
Quantum Gravity
Physics of the Early Universe and Cosmology
Field theory
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Biography

Research Interests

I am focused on building a bridge between certain descriptions of the fundamental structure of spacetime with potential phenomenological signatures produced on physically relevant regimes, such as the primordial epoch of the universe. For this goal, I study a variety of mathematical frameworks, from effective field theory and perturbative quantum field theory to the spinfoam formulation of Loop Quantum Gravity, and apply different techniques to cosmological observables in cosmic inflation and beyond. Most of my work is under the supervision of Prof. Eugenio Bianchi. 

 

Education 

  • B.Sc. in Physics - Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (2018)
  • M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics - Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (2021)
  • Ph.D. in Physics - Pennsylvania State University (2021-Present) 

 

Honors & Awards

  • Excellence in Physics Prize - APS & FIP (2025)
  • W. Donald Miller Fellowship (2025)
  • David Duncan Graduate Fellowship (2025)
  • LQG Summer School/LOC Blaumann Grant (2024)
  • Fondazione Blaumann Research Grant (2022)
  • Homer F. Braddock Fellowship (2022)
  • David H. Rank Memorial Physics Award (2022)
  • Fulbright Fellowship - FSP (2021-2025)

 


 

Teaching (TA)

  • PHYS 213: General Physics: Fluids and Thermal Physics (PSU, 2022)
  • PHYS 214: General Physics: Wave Motion and Quantum Physics (PSU, 2022/2025)
  • PHYS 250: Introductory Physics I (PSU,2022-2023)
  • PHYS 561: Quantum Mechanics I, Summer (PSU, 2025)
  • FIZ 0211: Thermodynamics (PUC, 2020)
  • FIZ 0311: Modern Physics (PUC, 2018-2019)
  • FIZ 3150: General Relativity (PUC, 2018)


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