Current members

Dr. Antonio Pereira (Postdoc, NWO Veni-Fellow)
Drs. Jesse Daas (PhD student)
Drs. AmirPouyan Khosravi-Karchi (PhD student)
Drs. Jian Wang (PhD student)
Drs. Cristobal Laporte (PhD student)
Kolja Kuijpers (Master student)
Mathijs Fraaije (Master student)

The web-presence of the quantum gravity group of the Radboud University Nijmegen
headed by Prof. Renate Loll , can be found here.

Previous members

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Benjamin Knorr
Dr. Daniel Becker
Dr. Giulio D'Odorico
Dr. Adriano Contillo
Dr. Omar Zanusso
Dr. Elisa Manrique

PhD Students

Dr. Chris Ripken (Ph.D., 2020)

Structural and Observational Aspects of Asyptotically Safe Quantum Gravity

Dr. Natalia Alkofer (Ph.D., 2018)

Quantum Gravity - From Fundamental Questions to Phenomenological Applications

Dr. Alessia Platania
(Ph.D., 2018, double PhD program RU/Catania University, Springer Thesis Award, INFN Fubini award 2018)
Asymptotically Safe Gravity - from spacetime foliation to cosmology
Dr. Maximilian Demmel (Ph.D., 2016)
Fixed functionals of the renormalization group flow in gauge theories and gravity
Dr. Stefan Rechenberger (Ph.D., 2013)
Quantum Einstein Gravity - the metric and the foliated formulation
Dr. Kai Groh (Ph.D., 2012)
Quantum Einstein Gravity - Advancements of heat kernel-based renormalization group studies

Master Students

Mina Galis (M.Sc., 2021)
Black Holes in Higher Derivative Gravity
Wouter Oosters (M.Sc., 2021)
Asymptotically Safe Fermions on Curved Backgrounds
Sam Pirlo (M.Sc., 2021)
On the Quantum Effective Action of Gravity coupled to Scalar and Abelian Gauge Fields
Tomás Fernández Quirante (Erasmus+ Fellowship, Univ. of Granada, M.Sc. 2021)
The causal structure of cosmological models with two fluids
Tom Draper (M.Sc., 2021)
Asymptotically Safe Amplitudes - No Strings Attached
Jesse Daas (M.Sc., 2020)
Fermions in the Asymptotic Safety Program
Dimitrios Gkiatas (M.Sc., 2019, joinded supervision with C. Kiefer (Univ. Köln))
A Covariant Treatment of Lorentzian Spacetimes in the Einstein-Hilbert Truncation
Lando Bosma (M.Sc., 2019)
Towards resolving singularities in Asymptotic Safety
Derryk Schieck (M.Sc., 2019)
N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and its deformations - a functional renormalisation approach
Arthur Vereijken (M.Sc., 2019)
Relating different regularization schemes in Functional Renormalization
Robin Ooijer (M.Sc., 2018, Lorentz Afstudeerprijs in Theoretical Physics 2018)
A complete cosmic history from Asymptotic Safety
Wouter Houthoff (M.Sc., 2017)
Safe Spheres - and where to find them
Jorn Biemans (M.Sc., 2017)
Renormalization group flows of gravity and gravity-matter systems on foliated spacetimes
Fleur Versteegen (M.Sc., 2016)
Quantum Gravity corrections to the Unruh effect
Jan-Willem Goossens (M.Sc., 2015)
Probing the fundamental nature of spacetime with the renormalization group

Bachelor Students

Iris van de Pas (B.Sc., 2021)
The mass-inflation effect for an Hayward black hole
Thijs Moen (B.Sc., 2021)
Quasi-normal modes of regular black holes
Nadia van Beurden (B.Sc., 2019)
Can we modify gravity to explain inflation?
Wouter Oosters (B.Sc., 2019)
Scale-dependent couplings in gravity-matter systems
Jesse Daas (B.Sc., 2018)
Quantum Gravity corrections to the scalar propagator
Tomas Fernández Quirante (B.Sc., 2018)
Distinguishing general relativity and modifed gravity via spatial volume profiles
William Kuijltjes (B.Sc., 2018)
Renormalization group improved Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes
Bart Zonneveld (common supervision with Dr. B. Knorr) (B.Sc., 2018)
Classifying covariantly constant manifolds
Frederik Stoel (honours program, B.Sc., 2017)
Calculating the critical exponent ν in the 3D Ising model
Lando Bosma (B.Sc., 2017)
Investigating f(R)-gravity on hyperbolic backgrounds
Tom Draper (common supervision with Drs. Chris Ripken) (B.Sc., 2017)
The radial eigenfunctions and propagator of the massive Klein-Gordon equation in Schwarzschild spacetime
Patrick Mullenders (common supervision with Dr. L. Glaser) (B.Sc., 2017)
Computing causal sets
Joris van der Ven (common supervision with Dr. J. Hnybida) (B.Sc., 2015)
The 2d Ising model from a spin network perspective
Thom Ottenbros (B.Sc., 2015)
Zooming into Asymptotically Safe Spacetimes
Martijn Kuppeveld (B.Sc., 2014)
Renormalization group flows of isotropic and anisotropic scalar field theories
Marrit Schutten (B.Sc., 2014)
Matter-induced RG flows in Horava-Lifshitz gravity

Long term visitors

12.2016 - 04.2017 Drs. Alexandr Kurov (Erasmus+ fellow, Moscow State University)