Francesca Vidotto

She earned her UG/MA in theoretical physics at the University of Padova and the PhD as double-degree at the University of Pavia and the Aix-Marseille Université. Afterwards, she was a postdoc researcher at the universities of Grenoble, Nijmegen and Bilbao.[https://inspirehep.net/authors/1071151 Francesca Vidotto] on inspirehep.net She was awarded a Rubicon (2012) and a Veni (2014) fellowship by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.NWO page of the Rubicon[https://www.nwo.nl/en/projects/680-50-1115-0] and Veni[https://www.nwo.nl/en/projects/680-47-440] projects.

From 2019, she has been an Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, where she held a Canada Research Chair in Foundations of Physics. She has been also a core member and associate director of [https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/portfolio-items/vidotto/ Western's Rotman Institute of Philosophy].[https://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/people/vidotto.html Francesca Vidotto Resumé].

Her research explores the quantum aspects of the gravitational field, in the framework of Loop Quantum Gravity. Her work covers topics from the cosmological and astrophysical applications of quantum gravity to the reflections on the nature of space-time and the foundations of quantum mechanics. She is best known for two research directions: Spin foam Cosmology, and Planck stars, with special emphasis on white holes and black hole remnants. Her main research interests have been cosmology, the quantum effect of black holes, and the foundations of quantum mechanics.{{Cite web |title=Francesca Vidotto, Assistant Professor |url=https://physics.uwo.ca/people/faculty_web_pages/vidotto.html |access-date=2024-09-06 |website=www.physics.uwo.ca |language=en}}

Vidotto won the first prize (shared with Amanda Gefter) in the 2023 FQXi contest "How could science be different?" for her essay [https://s3.amazonaws.com/fqxi.data/data/essay-contest-files/16/essay_id_2338.pdf "How Could Science Be Different? Ask a feminist!"]. She is an advocate for equity, inclusion and diversity in the physics field.{{Cite web |last=Fox |first=Deborah |title=Francesca Vidotto |url=https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/portfolio-items/vidotto/ |access-date=2024-09-06 |website=The Rotman Institute of Philosophy |language=en-US}} She also believes philosophy and physics go hand in hand.{{Cite web |last=Halley |first=Catherine |date=2020-05-29 |title=Francesca Vidotto: The Quantum Properties of Space-Time |url=https://daily.jstor.org/francesca-vidotto-the-quantum-properties-of-space-time/ |access-date=2024-09-06 |website=JSTOR Daily |language=en-US}}

• Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity: An elementary introduction (with Carlo Rovelli), Cambridge University Press, 2015.[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/covariant-loop-quantum-gravity/2DF4474CBF7845C261FA78904270F226# Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity: An elementary introduction] on cambridge.org/core/books

[https://inspirebeta.net/authors/1071151?ui-citation-summary=true] on inspire.net

• Primordial Fluctuations from Quantum Gravity (with Francesco Gozzini), 2019.[https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02211 Primordial Fluctuations from Quantum Gravity] in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 7, 118
• Quantum insights on Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter, 2018.[https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08007 Quantum insights on Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter] in PoS(EDSU2018)046
• Planck stars (with Carlo Rovelli), 2014.[https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.6562 Planck stars] in the International Journal of Modern Physics D 23 (12), 1442026 240 2014
• Maximal acceleration in covariant loop gravity and singularity resolution (with Carlo Rovelli), 2013.[https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3228 Maximal acceleration in covariant loop gravity and singularity resolution] in Physical Review Letters, 111.091303
• Towards spinfoam cosmology (with Eugenio Bianchi and Carlo Rovelli), 2010.[https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3483 Towards spinfoam cosmology] in Physical Review D 82 (8), 084035

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