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Dr Alejandra Castro Anich

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

Gravitational perturbations from NHEK to Kerr
A Castro, V Godet, J Simón, W Song, B Yu
(2021)
(link to publication)
Probes in AdS3 Quantum Gravity
A Castro
(2021)
389
(doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-55777-5_36)
A note on the $ \mathcal{N} $ = 2 super-$ {\mathcal{W}}_3 $ holographic dictionary
A Castro, A Faraggi, I Osorio
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2020)
2020,
177
(doi: 10.1007/jhep12(2020)177)
A note on the $\mathcal{N}=2$ super-$\mathcal{W}_3$ holographic dictionary
A Castro, A Faraggi, I Osorio
(2020)
(link to publication)
Gravitational Wilson lines in 3D de Sitter
A Castro, P Sabella-Garnier, C Zukowski
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2020)
2020,
202
(doi: 10.1007/jhep07(2020)202)
Breaking away from the near horizon of extreme Kerr
A Castro, V Godet
– SciPost Physics
(2020)
8,
089
(doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.8.6.089)
$\mathcal{N}=2$ minimal models: A holographic needle in a symmetric orbifold haystack
A Belin, N Benjamin, A Castro, SM Harrison, CA Keller
– SciPost Physics
(2020)
8,
084
(doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.8.6.084)
$\mathcal{N}=2$ Minimal Models: A Holographic Needle in a Symmetric Orbifold Haystack
A Belin, N Benjamin, A Castro, SM Harrison, CA Keller
(2020)
(link to publication)
Gravitational Wilson Lines in 3D de Sitter
A Castro, P Sabella-Garnier, C Zukowski
(2020)
(link to publication)
The holographic landscape of symmetric product orbifolds
A Belin, A Castro, CA Keller, B Muehlmann
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2020)
2020,
111
(doi: 10.1007/jhep01(2020)111)
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Email

ac2553@cam.ac.uk

Room

B2.19

Study at Cambridge

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