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Franco Pezzella

Education

October 1988 - Ph. D. in Theoretical Particle Physics
SISSA - Trieste, Italy
Title of Thesis: "N-String Vertex in the Operatorial Formalism"
Advisor: Prof. Paolo Di Vecchia (NORDITA - Copenhagen, Denmark).

October 1986 - Magister Philosophiae in Theoretical Particle Physics (summa cum laude)
SISSA - Trieste, Italy
Title of Thesis: "Scattering amplitudes for bosonic open and closed strings".
Advisor: Prof. Paolo Di Vecchia (NORDITA - Copenhagen, Denmark).

March 1984 - Laurea Degree in Physics (summa cum laude)
University "Federico II" - Naples, Italy
Title of Thesis: "Non-Perturbative Aspects in Quantum Field Theory. Lattice formulation and large N-limit of non-linear sigma-models O(N)".
Advisors: Proff. Francesco Nicodemi and Roberto Pettorino.

Fellowships

October 2009 - "Bruno Rossi" Fellow at MIT - Center for Theoretical Physics.

November 2010 - "Bruno Rossi" Fellow at MIT - Center for Theoretical Physics .

October 1988 / September 1990 - INFN Post-Doctoral Fellow
NORDITA - Copenhagen, Denmark.

October 1986 / September 1988 - Angelo Della Riccia Foundation Fellow
NORDITA - Copenhagen, Denmark.

October 1984 / October 1988 - SISSA Ph. D. Fellow.

Current position

INFN Staff Researcher (since 1989, December 1st).

Contract Professor of "String Theory" at Naples University "Federico II''.

Recent talks

"Principal Chiral Model: T-Duality Symmetries and Doubling" - Invited Talk at the Conference on Recent Developments in Strings and Gravity" - Corfu Summer Institute - Corfu, Greece (September 10-16, 2019).

"Manifest T-Duality from a Worldsheet Perspective" - Invited Talk at the Conference "String Field Theory and String Perturbation Theory" - GGi - Florence, Italy (May 6, 2019).

"T-Duality and Double Sigma Models" - Invited Talk by the String Theory Group at the University of Torino - Torino, Italy (November 27, 2018).

"Doubling, T-Duality and Generalized Geometry: A Simple Model" - Invited Talk at the Workshop "Dualities and Generalized Geometries" - Corfu Summer Institute 2018 - Corfu, Greece (September 9-16, 2018).

"Poisson-Lie T-Duality, Generalized and Double Geometries: A Simple Model" - Invited Talk at the Workshop "New Frontiers in String Theory" - Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics - Kyoto, Japan (July 2 - August 3, 2018).

"Double Field Theory from Double String Theory" - Invited Talk at the Workshop "Supergravity: What Next?" - Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics - Florence, Italy (September 5 - October 28, 2016).

"Double Sigma Model of Strings in Constant and Non-Constant Backgrounds" - Invited Talk at the Workshop "Duality and Novel Geometry in M-theory" - APCTP Pohang, Korea (January 26 - February 04, 2016).

"Classical and Quantum Aspects of the String Double Sigma Model" - Invited Talk at the Workshop "String Geometry" - Mainz, Germany (September 14-25, 2015).

"Some Aspects of the T-Duality Symmetric String Sigma Model" - Invited Talk at the XIV Marcel Grossmann Meeting - Rome, Italy (July 12-18, 2015).

"Two Double String Theory Actions: Covariance vs. Non-Covariance" - Workshop on Quantum Fields and Strings - Corfu, Greece (September 14-22, 2014).

"Comparing Two Double String Theory Actions" - Poster Session of STRINGS 2014 - Princeton NJ - US (June 23-27 2014).

"On T-Dual Invariant Actions of Bosonic String Theory" - ICIMAF - Havana, Cuba (June 6, 2014).

"About T-Duality Symmetric String Theory Actions" - LPTHE, Jussieu - Paris, France (May 21, 2014).

"String theory with manifest target space duality" - INFN Naples Theoretical Group Seminar - Naples, Italy (May 15, 2014).

"On Double String Theory Actions" - Physics Department of University "Tor Vergata" - Rome, Italy (January 13, 2014).

"On Double String Theory Actions" - MiniWorkshop on Strings, Duality and Gauge Fields - Bilbao, Spain (December 2-4, 2013).

"T-Duality Symmetric Closed String Theory and Gravitational Effective Action" - XX SIGRAV Conference - Naples, Italy (October 22-26, 2012).

"On the T-duality symmetric closed string theory" - Workshop INFN/Spain 2012 - Naples, Italy (November 12-14, 2012).

"String Phenomenology and Magnetized Braneworld" - Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, NYU - New York City, US (November 2008).

"Kaehler Metrics and Yukawa Couplings in Magnetized Braneworld" - IV Workshop of the EU RTN project 'Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe' - Varna, Bulgaria (October 2008).

"Gauge/Gravity Correspondence and Open/Closed String Duality" - XXIII Meeting Strings@ar - La Plata, Argentina (December 2006).

"String Construction of Orientifold Field Theories" - Poster Session of STRINGS 2005 - Toronto, Canada (July 2005).

"String Theory and Unification of the Fundamental Interactions" - Domus Galileana - Pisa, Italy (May 2004).

"Gauge/Gravity Correspondence from Open/Closed String Duality in Non-Supersymmetric Models" - Workshop 'Modern Problems in Theoretical Physics' - Cortona, Italy (June 2004).

"Gauge/Gravity Correspondence and Open/Closed String Duality" - II Italian Meeting PRIN "Field Theory, Superstrings and Gravity" - Anacapri, Italy (September 2003).

"N=1,2 SuperQCD and Fractional Branes" - Physics Department at Parma University, Italy (March 11, 2003).

"Aspects of Duality in Gauge and String Theories" - Seminar for INFN Naples Section Theoretical Group - Naples, Italy (February 2nd, 2003).

"N=1 SuperQCD and Fractional Branes" - 9th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS 03) - Mumbai, India (January 2003).

"N=1 Matter from Fractional Branes" - First Italian Meeting PRIN "Field Theory, Superstrings and Gravity" - Anacapri, Italy (September 2002).

"Off-shell Tachyon Amplitudes: Analyticity and Projective Invariance" - Convegno "Problemi Attuali di Fisica Teorica" - Vietri Sul Mare, Italy (March 2000).