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Research

My current research is focused on string theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence, and non-perturbative effects in matrix models.

Specifically, my interests have been on the integrable models underlying string theory in particular backgrounds, and the use of their properties to study the dynamics of string solutions such as spinning strings and giant magnons. More recently I have been looking at correlation functions of gauge operators in the context of AdS/CFT.

I have also been studying the non-perturbative structures of the partition function of matrix models, using a mathematical technique called resurgence theory.

Previously, I also worked on the symmetry algebra underlying some examples of the AdS/CFT correspondence, and on the bi-hamiltonian structure of Calogero-type models.