Isolated Objects in Quadratic Gravity / Springer Theses (PDF)

Samuele Silveravalle was born on the 20th of December 1992 in Milan, Italy, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Physics at University of Milano Bicocca in the spring of 2015, and where he took the majority of his Master's studies in theoretical Physics. Intrigued by the Renormalization Group approach to quantum gravity, he came into contact with Alfio Bonanno of the Catania Astrophysical Observatory, contact that led him to spend seven months in Sicily to study black hole solutions in quadratic gravity for his thesis. After obtaining a Master's degree in spring 2018, he spent three months with Luciano Rezzolla's group at the Goethe University of Frankfurt studying the stability of isothermal clusters in modified gravity, and a few months working as a High School teacher in Sesto San Giovanni. In autumn 2019 he obtained a Ph.D. scholarship from TIFPA-INFN, and enrolled in the XXXV cycle of the Ph.D. program in Physics at University of Trento under the supervision of Massimiliano Rinaldi. In Trento he kept working on compact object solutions in quadratic gravity, and investigated some of the effects of imposing a scale symmetry to this theory, and some aspects of Yang-Mills fields in cosmology. In June 2023 he obtained his doctoral degree with a thesis entitled "Isolated objects in quadratic gravity".