Mauricio Gamonal
- Research Assistant — Penn State
- mgamonal (at) psu.edu
- PhD 2026, Penn State (advisor: Eugenio Bianchi)
- MSc 2021, PUC Chile (advisor: Jorge Alfaro)
- My research lies at the interface of quantum gravity and cosmology. I study how classical spacetime emerges from quantum geometry and how this process may leave observable imprints in the primordial Universe.
Updates
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2026-09 — WOST school 2026 at École de physique des Houches!
[event]
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2026-08 — COSMO 26 at Leiden University
[poster]
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2026-05 — Officially a PhD!
- 2026-04 — Preprint: Toller matrices and the Feynman iε in spinfoams [arXiv]
- 2026-02 — Passed doctoral defense! [slides]
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2026-02 — ILQGS: Toller matrices and the causal spinfoam vertex
[slides]
- 2026-01 — Preprint: Causal spinfoam vertex [arXiv]
- 2025-06 — PRD article: predictions from the EFT of a quantum spacetime [arXiv]
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2025-03 — APS talk + DS Excellence Prize
[slides]
- 2024-10 — PRD article: squeezed vacua in primordial cosmology [arXiv]
- 2024-05 — Talk at Loops'24: precision cosmology and quantum gravity [slides]
- 2024-05 — PRD article: precision calculations for inflation [arXiv]
I’m always happy to discuss the early Universe, foundational and phenomenological aspects of quantum gravity, and related questions in philosophy of science—and, more broadly, the creative process, current affairs, and other interesting facets of life.