Summary
Tehran (M. Sc.) - Milan (Ph. D.) - Tokyo (Postdoc) - London (Research Associate)
Academic Career
Research Associate, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; October 2021 - present.
Postdoctoral fellow, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan; March 2018 - September 2021.
Research Interests
Quantum theory of fields and gravity
Localization and matrix models
AdS/CFT correspondence and its applications
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Research Grants
- Marie Curie European Fellowships–Standard (Beneficiary: Queen Mary University of London, UK), total score: 95.20%, "Holography and Quantum Black Holes", total cost: EUR 237K, date received: February 13, 2023.
- Marie Curie European Fellowships–Standard (Beneficiary: Sorbonne University, Paris, Fran- ce), total score: 96.40%, "Black Holes, Holography and Quantum Physics", total cost: EUR 185K, date received: February 08, 2021 (turned down).
- JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid (Early-Career Scientists), No.20K14462, "Black Holes, Quantum Physics and Holography", total cost: USD 33K, April 2020 – September 2021.
Selected Publications
S. M. Hosseini, "Gravitational blocks: Symplectic covariance unveiled," Phys.Lett.B 843 (2023) 138044
S. M. Hosseini, I. Yaakov and A. Zaffaroni, "The joy of factorization at large N: five-dimensional indices and AdS black holes," JHEP 02, 097 (2022)
S. M. Hosseini and A. Zaffaroni, "Universal AdS Black Holes in Theories with 16 Supercharges and Their Microstates," Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, no.17, 171604 (2021)
S. M. Hosseini, K. Hristov, Y. Tachikawa and A. Zaffaroni, "Anomalies, Black strings and the charged Cardy formula," JHEP 09, 167 (2020)
S. M. Hosseini, K. Hristov and A. Zaffaroni, "Gluing gravitational blocks for AdS black holes," JHEP 12, 168 (2019)
S. M. Hosseini, K. Hristov and A. Passias, "Holographic microstate counting for AdS4 black holes in massive IIA supergravity," JHEP 10, 190 (2017)
S. M. Hosseini, K. Hristov and A. Zaffaroni, "An extremization principle for the entropy of rotating BPS black holes in AdS5," JHEP 07, 106 (2017)
S. M. Hosseini and N. Mekareeya, "Large N topologically twisted index: necklace quivers, dualities, and Sasaki-Einstein spaces," JHEP 08, 089 (2016)
S. M. Hosseini and A. Zaffaroni, "Large N matrix models for 3d N = 2 theories: twisted index, free energy and black holes," JHEP 08, 064 (2016)