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Adrian del Rio Vega

Adrian del Rio Vega — Postdoctoral Scholar — Postdoc
Office: 307 Whitmore Laboratory
Address: 104 Davey Lab University Park, PA 16802 US
axd570@psu.edu
+1 814-863-0165
Adrian del Rio Vega
Physics Black Holes Gravitational Waves CFT
Publications
  1. Ivan Agullo, Vitor Cardoso, Adrián Rio, Michele Maggiore, Jorge Pullin “Absorption spectroscopy of quantum black holes with gravitational waves.” Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 30 14 (2021) doi:10.1142/S021827182142013X
  2. Adrian Rio “Chiral anomalies induced by gravitational waves.” Phys. Rev. D 104 6 (2021) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.065012
  3. Adrian Rio, Nicolas Sanchis-Gual, Vassilios Mewes, Ivan Agullo, Jose Font, Jose Navarro-Salas “Spontaneous creation of circularly polarized photons in chiral astrophysical systems.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 124 21 (2020) doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.211301
  4. Vitor Cardoso, Adrian Rio, Masashi Kimura “Distinguishing black holes from horizonless objects through the excitation of resonances during inspiral.” Phys. Rev. D 100 (2019) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.084046
  5. Adrián Rio, Ruth Durrer, Subodh Patil “Tensor Bounds on the Hidden Universe.” JHEP 12 (2018) doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2018)094
About our wordmark
Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.