Leonardo Senatore

Leonardo Senatore is an Italian theoretical cosmologist.

Senatore first studied aeronautical engineering at the Scuola Superiore S. Anna in Pisa , but then turned to theoretical physics and received his Laureate degree in 2002 from the University of Pisa and his diploma in 2003 from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. In 2006 he received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Alan Guth . As a post-doctoral student he was at the Institute for Advanced Study (2006, with Nima Arkani-Hamed ) and Harvard University (with Matias Zaldarriaga ). From 2010 he was assistant professor at Stanford University and at SLAC (Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, PPA).

He looks for evidence of quantum effects and (eternal) inflation in the early universe in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and develops effective field theories of large-scale cosmological structures and inflation models. With colleagues, he investigated the role of gravitational waves in inflation models of the early universe and the Higgs boson and the resulting cosmological predictions.

For 2016 he received the New Horizons in Physics Prize . In 2012 he received an Early Career Award from the Department of Energy (DOE) and in 2010 the Terman Award from Stanford University.

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TASI Lectures on Inflation, 2012, pdf
with Matias Zaldarriaga: On loops in inflation, JHEP 12, 2010, 008, Arxiv
with P. Creminelli, MA Luty, A. Nicolis: Starting the universe: stable violation of the null energy condition and non standard cosmologies, JHEP 12, 2006, 080, Arxiv
with KM Smith, M. Zaldarriaga: Non-Gaussianities in single field inflation and their optimal limits from WMAP 5-year data, JCAP, 01, 2010, 028, Arxiv
with C. Cheung, P. Creminelli, AL Fitzpatrick, J. Kaplan: The effective field theory of inflation, JHEP 03, 2008, 014, Arxiv
with C. Cheung, P. Creminelli, AL Fitzpatrick, J. Kaplan: On the consistency relation of the 3-point function in single field inflation, JCAP, 0802, 2008, 021, Arxiv
with M. Zaldarriaga: A naturally large four-point function in single field inflation, JCAP, 01, 2011, 003, Arxiv
with Matias Zaldarriaga: The Effective Field Theory of Multifield Inflation, JHEP, 4, 2012, 024, Arxiv
with José Espinosa, Gian F. Giudice, Enrico Morgante, Antonio Riotto, Alessandro Strumia, Nikolaos Tetradis: The cosmological Higgstory of the vacuum instability, Preprint 2015, Arxiv
with Eva Silverstein, Matias Zaldarriaga: New sources of gravitational waves during inflation, JCAP, Arxiv
with Paolo Creminelli, Sergei Dubovsky, Alberto Nicolis, Matias Zaldarriaga: The Phase Transition to Eternal Inflation, JHEP, 09, 2008, 036, Arxiv
with Mehrdad Mirbabayi, Eva Silverstein, Matias Zaldarriaga: Gravitational Waves and the Scale of Inflation, Phys. Rev. D 91, 2015, 063518, Arxiv
with John Joseph M. Carrasco, Mark P. Hertzberg: The Effective Field Theory of Cosmological Large Scale Structures, JHEP, 9, 2012, 82, Arxiv

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Individual evidence

^ Winner of the New Horizons in Physics Prize 2016

personal data
SURNAME	Senate, Leonardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian theoretical cosmologist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[1] Winner of the New Horizons in Physics Prize 2016