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Davide Racco
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in topics at the crossover between Particle Physics and Cosmology, focusing in particular on dark matter, gravitational waves, non-Gaussianities, Higgs metastability and early universe.
My main area of interest is Dark Matter, and I have worked on various classes of candidates, ranging from WIMPs (particles with masses and interaction strengths comparable to the Standard Model particles, who are currently the target of many experimental searches) to Primordial Black Holes (hypothetical black holes that could have formed in the early history of the Universe) and axions (particles which would also solve the strong CP problem in particle physics).
Concerning the production mechanism for Dark Matter, I have been studying gravitational production during inflation, which is a well-motivated and minimal scenario and can guide the identification of benchmarks for direct detection.
I am also very interested in stochastic backgrounds of primordial gravitational waves. Their potential discovery would disclose precious information on the cosmology of the early universe, and the particle content at high energy scales. -
Manuel Razo-Mejia
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
BioI was born and raised in central Mexico, in a state called Guanajuato. Although I was trained as an engineer due to social circumstances, my passion always resided in the natural world and the way to understand it that physics offered. Guided by this passion, I did my Ph.D. with Rob Phillips at Caltech, working at the interface between physics and biology. For my postdoc, I want to bring the Physical Biology mindset to the question of evolution. That is why I joined Dmitri Petrov's lab to study the evolutionary dynamics of microbial populations from a theory-experiment dialogue perspective.
