Laura Donnay
My research focuses on classical and quantum aspects of gravity, especially on the emergence of infinite-dimensional symmetries that arise at spacetime boundaries, for instance in the near-horizon region of black holes or at the asymptotically boundary of flat spacetimes. The goal of my research is to use the powerful constraints (in the form of conservation laws) implied by these symmetries in order to unveil a holographic description of gravity for realistic spacetimes (“celestial holography”) and quantum properties of black holes.
Daniel Grumiller
Daniel Grumiller’s research group focuses on black holes and the holographic principle. The latter is realized in string theory and states that theories with gravity in some dimension are equivalent to certain theories without gravity in one lower dimension. A central goal addressed in their work is to test the generality of the holographic principle and to verify whether or not it applies to our Universe.