Julio Oliva
Contact information
Address: Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Concepción. Estaban Iturra, s/n, Concepción, Chile.
Phone: (+56) 41 2203096
email: julioolivazapata-at-gmail-dot-com
Affiliations
- 2015 to date: Associate Professor, Physics Department, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
- 2014-2017: Junior Associate, ICTP, Trieste Italy.
- 2009-2015: Associate Professor, Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
- 2012: Postdoctoral Researcher, Physics Department, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (sponsored by Gastón Giribet).
- 2007-2009: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centro de Estudios Científicos, CECs, Valdivia, Chile.
Research lines and interests
General Relativity and Cosmology, gravity in 2+1-dimensions, supergravity, gravity in higher dimensions, black holes, stability, AdS/CFT.
Publications
Students
Current
- Aldo Vera, Ph.D. student at UdeC.
- Marcela Lagos, Ph.D. student at UdeC.
- Emerson Tenorio, Ph.D. student at UdeC.
- Luis Aviles, Ph.D. student at UdeC.
Former students
- Marcela Lagos, Instability of black strings in third-order Lovelock theories. Master thesis defended on March 2016. Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile. Article
- Carla Heriquez, Quasinormal modes of black holes and normal modes of gravitational solitons. Undergraduate thesis defended on December 2015. Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
- Aldo Vera, Black strings and holographic causality constraints in Lovelock theories. Master thesis defended on March 2015. Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile. Article
Recent talks
- Mini-course at the Theoretical Physics School, La Plata, Argentina, December 2015. Black holes with conformal scalars
- Group Seminar, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. November 2015. Exact solutions in R^2 Supergravity
- 14th Marcel Grossmann meeting, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. July 2015. Black strings in Gauss-Bonnet are Unstable
- 62nd Strings@ar meeting, UNLP, La Plata, Argentina. May 2015. Black strings in Gauss-Bonnet theory are unstable
- Invited plenary speaker, Grav15 Meeting, Córdoba, Argentina. April 2015. Black strings in higher curvature gravity are Unstable
Grants
Current
- FONDECYT REGULAR GRANT 1141073, General Relativity and its Extensions: Exact Solutions, Stability and Symmetries (2014-2017) P.I.
- FONDECYT REGULAR GRANT 1150907, Rotating black holes in gravitational theories (2015-2018), (P.I. Sourya Ray)
- Director of the international research grant DPI20140053 Chile/UK, Spacetimes with anisotropic scaling symmetry and holography. (2014-2017).
Past
- FONDECYT INICIACION GRANT 11090281, Theories of gravity in arbitrary dimensions: symmetries exact solutions, stability and beyond (2010-2013) P.I.
- FONDECYT POSTDOCTORAL GRANT 3085043, Gravity in higher dimensions and scalar fields . (2008-2009) P.I.
- FONDECYT REGULAR GRANT 1110167, Aspects of higher dimensional gravity. (P.I. Alex Giacomini) (2012-2015).
- Responsible sponsor researcher for CONICYT GRANT 791100027, Inserción en la academia Gravity theories and black holes thermodynamics (2012-2014).
- Associate researcher, Anillo de investigación en ciencias y tecnología, ACT91, Southern Theoretical Physics Laboratory (2010-2013).
- Responsible researcher for the CONICYT GRANT 80130051, Stays in Chile of International Excellence Researchers Profesor visitante Instituto de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad Austral de Chile e Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad de Talca, (Invited researcher Dr. Eloy Ayón-Beato (CINVESTAV, México)).