Research Interest of Maurizio Melis

      Publication 1: Microscopic entropy of the charged BTZ black hole (URL)
      Publication 2: Black hole solutions of dimensionally reduced Einstein-Gauss Bonnet gravity with a cosmological constant (URL)
      Publication 3: Global properties of charged dilatonic Gauss-Bonnet black holes (URL)

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Statement of Interest:


  At present I am attending the 2nd year of a Ph.D. in Physics focused on Quantum Gravity. In particular my research interests concern:
- Microscopic entropy of the charged BTZ black hole.
- Entanglement entropy in quantum gravity and AdS/CFT correspondence.

Previously I received a Ph.D. in Mathematics with a thesis on “Black hole solutions of higher-derivative gravity with methods from the theory of dynamical systems”. 
In particular, I studied the following subjects:
- Global properties of neutral and charged dilatonic Gauss-Bonnet black holes.
- Black hole solutions of dimensionally reduced Einstein-Gauss Bonnet gravity with a cosmological constant.
- Two-dimensional black holes with pointlike sources.

My early research activity in Physics focused on exclusive processes in perturbative QCD. In particular I investigated the following topics:
- Production of baryon-antibaryon pairs in J/psi exclusive decays.
- Exclusive meson production in two photon collisions.
- Nucleon electromagnetic form factors .
- Off forward parton distributions in deeply virtual Compton scattering and in electroproduction of vector and pseudoscalar mesons. 
- Glueball production in quarkonium decays.