welcome to my personal website

my name is Andrea Di Biagio, and i am a postdoctoral researcher in theoretical physics at IQOQI Vienna in Marios Christodoulou’s group after completing my PhD with Carlo Rovelli

my research is situated at the broad intersection of gravity, quantum information theory, quantum foundations, and quantum field theory. my main motivations in doing research are about developping ways to understand the world, marvelling in the power and beauty of mathematics to describe structure and behaviour, and delighting in the unique communion that happens when we speak with colleagues about maths and physics, where our minds meet in this shared abstract space and we understand each other in such a deep way

the name of the site comes from Norbert Wiener (paraphrased):

we are not things that exist, but patterns that abide

everything is in flow but there are a bunch of regularities in the world, including people, music genres, houses. mathematics and the laws of physics help us grasp these regularities

I’ve always been drawn to explore both the mind and the body, academia and nature, maths and the ocean. When I’m not thinking about qft, gravity, fields, locality and causality, interpretations of qm, the direction of time, probability, and the emergence of spacetime, you can find me climbing, hiking, in the ocean freediving or scuba diving, or at a daytime psytrance party. I’ve recently gotten into juggling, poi spinning. Sometimes i take pictures that i like enough to post them. I like to cook and eat plants.

visit my blog, for research updates, ideas and musings about science, maths, and some personal things as well.

proudly vice-chairing the brcp this year.

organising a collaborative research project on the volcano island of Stromboli 🌋 end of August! more info and application at ssri.it

also organising a workshop on the emergence of spacetime in November!

hear what what i’m listening to