Alessandro Mininno

I am Alessandro Mininno, an Italian postDoc researcher, here at UW-Madison. I did my Bachelor and my Master at the University of Trieste, and I completed my studies with a PhD in Theoretical High Energy Physics at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Madrid.

In the context of String Phenomenology, I am mainly interested in the so-called Swampland Program, aimed to find constraints that any Effective Field Theory coupled to gravity must satisfy in order to be compatible with Quantum Gravity. Most of the time, such constraints are expressed in terms of conjecture, and I focus on various versions of Weak Gravity Conjecture that, together with my collaborators, we tested in different set-ups, such as type-II / F-theory and M-theory compactifications. I am also interested in formal aspects of String compactifications, such study of supersymmetric vacua with minimal supersymmetry. My other research interest are Argyres-Douglas Theories, and their compactifications in 3d. In the past years, we studied generalized global symmetries of these theories, such as 1-form and 2-group symmetries, as well as non-invertible symmetries.