Adrien Florio is the Group Leader of the $\left\lvert\chi\right\rangle$real Emmy Noether research group at Bielefeld University and Project Leader in the Collaborative Research Center-Transregio CRC-TR 211 (Project A02).
Positions
04/2025-
Emmy Noether Junior Group Leader
Bielefeld University, Germany
2022-2025
Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow
Brookhaven National Lab., US · Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) + Nuclear Theory group
2020-2022
Postdoc. researcher
Center for Nuclear Theory, Stony Brook, US
Funding
01/2026-
Project Leader in Collaborative Research Center CRC-TR-211
DFG
Project A02 on the phase diagram at finite chemical potential. Funding for a full PhD student ~150'000€
04/2025-
Emmy Noether Grant, German Research Foundation (DFG)
DFG
Personal research grant of ~ 1'500'000€ to establish a junior research group.
Awards & Highlights
2022-2025
Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowship, Brookhaven National Lab., US
\$22K yearly salary bonus + \$12k yearly travel/material fund. Highlighted in BNL news ↗.
Selected Talks
Plenary Talks
Invited Talks
Education
2016-2020
PhD in Physics
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland · Supervisor: Pr. M. Shaposhnikov
2014-2016
MSc in Physics
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2014-2016
Minor in Mathematics
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2011-2014
BSc in Physics
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Professional Services
Advisory Committees
on-going
Advisory Board Member
Graduate and Academic Career Development Centre (GRACE), Bielefeld University
Organizing Committees
06/2026
Advanced Lectures in Physics in Switzerland (ALPS III) ↗
PhD summer school on generalized symmetries and quantum simulation methods. Funding: SwissMAP (CHF30K), Bielefeld University (€5K), CRC-TR-211 (€2K).
06/2025
Advanced Lectures in Physics in Switzerland (ALPS II) ↗
PhD summer school on integrability breaking and hydrodynamics. Funding: SwissMAP (CHF30K), University of Geneva (CHF7K).
05/2024
Advanced Lectures in Physics in Switzerland (ALPS I) ↗
PhD summer school on quantum computing. Funding: SwissMAP (CHF30K), Quantinuum (CHF5K).
2022
CosmoLattice School 2022
PhD summer school 09/2022 about the CosmoLattice software.
2021
6th Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Field in Heavy Ion Collisions
Referee
on-going
PRL, PRB, PRD, PRE, JHEP, JCAP, Nature Communications
2024
Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program
Seminar Organization
2025-
Bielefeld E6/D6 seminars
2022-2025
BNL Nuclear Theory Seminars
2020-2022
CFNS/CNT seminars
Supervision
Current group: 2 PhD students, 1 postdoc, 1 master student, 1 bachelor student.
PhD Students
2026-
Marta Memon
2025-
Vasundhara Krishnan
Postdocs
2025-
Franz Sattler
Master Students
2026-
Jonathan Knospe
2019-2020
Alexandra Tchalakian
EPFL, Master project, supervisor
2020-2021
José Matos
EPFL/Porto, Master project, co-supervisor
2020-2021
Frédéric Dux
EPFL, Master project, co-supervisor
Bachelor Students
2025-
Florian Weimhoener
Mentorship
2020-2022
Nicolas Loayza
Valencia, PhD student, mentorship
2021-2024
David Frenklakh
Stony Brook U., PhD student, mentorship
Teaching
Courses
2026
Cosmology
Master course, Bielefeld
PhD Schools & Lectures
2026
Heidelberg Graduate Summer School (projected)
Anomalous real-time dynamics
2026
CRC retreat, Bonn
Tensor networks and quantum simulations
2023
CosmoLattice summer school, online
Real-time simulations ↗
2022
CosmoLattice summer school, Valencia
Real-time simulations ↗
2022
YETI 2022 "Phenomenology in the sky", Durham/online
Real-time simulations and the use of the CosmoLattice software ↗
Teaching Assistant
2016-2019
General Relativity and Cosmology, 1st year MSc, EPFL
2017-2019
Quantum Mechanics III, 1st year MSc, EPFL
2017
Remedial General Physics, 1st year BSc, EPFL
Workshops
2017
Teaching Toolkits, Participant, EPFL's Teaching Support Center
Outreach
08/2024
REYES, tutor, LBNL (online)
Remote Experience for Young Engineers and Scientists. Online program to develop STEM literacy in high-school students.
08/2022-2024
QISE High School Summer School, tutor, Virginia Tech (online)
1 week summer school to teach quantum computations to high school students (3x).
Full List of Talks
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JJournal club
2026
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"Quantum revolution for hadrons", APS March meeting, Denver · ↗
2025
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"Quantum revolution for hadrons", Komittee für Hadron und Kern Physik, Bad Honnef · ↗
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"Early Universe dynamics", Physics PhD day colloquium, Bielefeld
Co
"Strong interaction dynamics and their quantum origin", Physics colloquium, Bielefeld
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"Thermalization of 'Jets' in the Massive Schwinger Model", IsoQuant YS Seminar, Heidelberg
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"ditto", Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar, MIT
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"Emergent thermalisation in the Schwinger model", ECT*, Trento · ↗
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"Approach to thermalisation in the Schwinger model", DPG Quantum 2025, Göttingen · ↗
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"ditto", École Polytechnique, Paris
2024
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"QCD dynamics: some theory developments", CERN workshop · ↗
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"New physics from lower dimensions", Strong and Electroweak Matter, Frankfurt · ↗
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"ditto", UMD, College Park
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"ditto", UIC, Chicago
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"ditto", Stony Brook/CFNS
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"Entanglement in pair creation", Workshop "Exploring Quantum Mechanics in High Energy Physics", Pittsburgh · ↗
2023
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"Entanglement in pair creation", Workshop "Probing the Frontiers of Nucl. Phys. with AI at the EIC", CFNS · ↗
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"ditto", Workshop "Thermalization, from Cold Atoms to Hot QCD", Seattle · ↗
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"ditto", Jefferson Lab · ↗
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"ditto", Florence U.
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"Real-time non-perturbative dynamics of jet production in Schwinger model: quantum entanglement and vacuum modifications", Workshop "Quantum Entanglement in HEP", Cracow · ↗
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"ditto", IQuS, Seattle · ↗
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"News from magnetohydrodynamics and anomalous transport", Symposium on Extreme Quantum Matter, BNL
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"ditto", Workshop "Chiral Matter: from quarks to quantum computers", Tours · ↗
Co
"Early universe dynamics: from preheating to the spectroscopy of gravitational waves", Physics colloquium, BNL
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"The O(4) critical point in QCD", Durham U.
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"ditto", EPFL, Lausanne
2022
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"The O(4) critical point in QCD", Iowa State University, Ames
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"ditto", University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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"ditto", SEWM2022, Saclay · ↗
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"ditto", FunQCD2022, Valencia · ↗
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"ditto", Theory seminar, Bern
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"ditto", Nuclear and Particle Theory seminar, MIT
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"ditto", RBRC seminar, BNL · ↗
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"Gibbs entropy from entanglement in electric quenches", IFT, Madrid, online
J
"CosmoLattice", YITP, Stony Brook
2021
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"Gibbs entropy from entanglement in electric quenches", NT seminar, BNL, online
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"ditto", Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum 2021, online · ↗
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"ditto", SEWM2021, online · ↗
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"CosmoLattice", Cosmo Coffee, CERN, online
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"ditto", IMSC, Chennai, online
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"Searching for a critical point in 5D SU(2)", Asymptotic safety seminar series, online · ↗
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"ditto", IHES, Saclay, online
2020
S
"Abelian Finite Temperature Chiral Charge Dynamics", Bielefeld University
2019
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"Abelian Finite Temperature Chiral Charge Dynamics", Basel University
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"ditto", INT, Seattle
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"ditto", UChicago, Chicago
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"ditto", Stony Brook
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"ditto", RIKEN Lunch Seminar, BNL
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"ditto", NYU, New York
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"ditto", IFIC, Valencia
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"ditto", CosmoCoffee, CERN
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"Schwinger Pair-Production from Padé-Borel Reconstruction", Imperial College London
2018
Cf
"Abelian Finite Temperature Chiral Charge Dynamics", Lattice2018, Michigan · ↗
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"Open vs Periodic Boundary Conditions in the Deconfined Phase", DESY Zeuthen
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"ditto", CERN
2017
Cf
"Open vs Periodic Boundary Conditions in the Deconfined Phase", Lattice2017, Granada
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"ditto", HISS, Dubna
2016
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"Open vs Periodic Boundary Conditions in the Deconfined Phase", Bielefeld University
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"COMBI, Improved Field Solvers", CERN, Geneva
Computing Skills
Languages
French
Mother tongue
English
Fluent (CAE in 2014)
German
B1-B2
Italian
Good written and oral comprehension