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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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

Siegel Modular Forms and Black Hole Entropy
A Belin, A Castro, J Gomes, CA Keller
(2016)
Eternal higher spin black holes: a thermofield Interpretation
A Castro, N Iqbal, E Llabres
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2016)
2016,
22
Extremal higher spin black holes
M Banados, A Castro, A Faraggi, JI Jottar
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2016)
2016,
77
Eternal Higher Spin Black Holes: a Thermofield Interpretation
A Castro, N Iqbal, E Llabrés
(2016)
Entanglement entropy in warped conformal field theories
A Castro, DM Hofman, N Iqbal
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2016)
2016,
33
Extremal Higher Spin Black Holes
M Bañados, A Castro, A Faraggi, JI Jottar
(2015)
Fake gaps in AdS3/CFT2
A Belin, A Castro, L-Y Hung
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2015)
2015,
145
Warped Weyl fermion partition functions
A Castro, DM Hofman, G Sarosi
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2015)
2015,
129
Entanglement Entropy in Warped Conformal Field Theories
A Castro, DM Hofman, N Iqbal
(2015)
Warped Weyl fermion partition functions
A Castro, DM Hofman, G Sárosi
(2015)
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Research Group

High Energy Physics

Room

B2.19