
Prof. Theoretical Astroparticle Physics @GRAPPAInstitute | Father of 2 | Author | President @PremioCosmos
Amsterdam, NL
Joined February 2012
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📣 Calling candidates from underrepresented groups in physics! The Els Koffeman Fellowship is a prestigious personal grant that supports postdocs conducting high-quality research at @IoP_UvA, with aim to launch them into faculty position. Apply by Nov 8 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
Gianfranco Bertone retweeted
Gravitational-wave signals from black hole mergers could reveal the presence of “gravitational atoms”—black holes surrounded by clouds of axions or other light bosons.
Letters: go.aps.org/4e46bwV go.aps.org/3B7hzte
Viewpoint: go.aps.org/4e7D7Ve
Delighted to contribute to 'The birth of an Idea', wonderful outreach project led by Vitor Cardoso and Ana Sousa Carvalho. More about the project + full text of my contribution 'Sailing in the dark': gianfrancobertone.net/2024/0…
Congrats, @ESA_Euclid collaboration! Scientific papers available at euclid-ec.org/science/public…
#ESAEuclid celebrates first science with sparkling cosmic views! 🤩
The images are part of Euclid’s Early Release Observations — just 24 hours of observations, 17 targets, over 11 million objects revealed in visible light and 5 million more in infrared light.
Access them here👉 esa.int/Science_Exploration/… and read more about each image below 🧵👇

ALT Composite image of five astronomical views. Three are placed at the top, two at the bottom. All are dotted with stars and galaxies against a black background. Striking features are three bright glowing structures in the first image. The second image has an orange veil-like structure spanning across. In the third we see a stunning spiral galaxy with many arms. The fourth image features light from galaxies lying behind a bright cluster distorted into arcs. And the fifth image shows a variety of galaxies in all shapes and sizes.
Heads up: @esa is releasing a new set of images captured by the @ESA_Euclid space telescope. Broadcast of the reveal on Thursday 23 May at 12:00 CEST 👇👇
T- 1⃣ day and we're ready to unveil five new sparkling images from #ESAEuclid! 🤩
Follow the broadcast 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=vwwZ0bjO…
Until then, turn the volume up and watch this 👇 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Video…
Congrats to the winners of the French Cosmos Prize: Hélène Courtois, Prix Cosmos des Lycéens 2024 + Jordan Ellenberg, Prix Cosmos 2024. Kudos to Pierre Vanhove & team for a successful 1st edition in France. Award ceremony 10/6 @ Institut de France, Paris prixcosmos.github.io/2024.ht…
I have just returned from a truly stimulating three-month sabbatical in New York City. In this post, I briefly reflect on the overall experience to ask: was it all worth it? gianfrancobertone.net/2024/0…
Video of colloquia at Yale and Harvard gianfrancobertone.net/2024/0…
Gianfranco Bertone retweeted
.@gfbertone and @DanHooperAstro 2018 Rev.Mod.Phys. review
"History of dark matter"
inspirehep.net/literature/14…
reaches 1,000 citations.
#topcites @APSPublishing @Fermilab
Due to ongoing turmoil at Columbia U., the “Future of Dark Matter” brainstorming workshop that I co-organised with my friends and colleagues @Elena_Aprile and Lam Hui, initially planned at Columbia U., was hosted at the @SimonsFdn CCA. A brief recap: gianfrancobertone.net/2024/0…
Gianfranco Bertone retweeted
Dark matter can reach extremely high densities around intermediate-mass black holes and induce environmental effects that can be probed with gravitational waves. Here is a realistic description of the formation of such overdensities: arxiv.org/abs/2404.08731 (1/3)
Join us for a special @Eucapt Colloquium tomorrow, Jocelyn Bell will speak about "Women is Physics". Abstract: After some 60 yrs as an astrophysicist in the UK, what overall trends do I see in gender balance, where are we now, what lessons might we learn? indico.cern.ch/event/1305343…
Join us in Amsterdam this Spring for the 1st conference of the “European AI for fundamental physics” consortium. Abstract submission open until 15 January 👇
Wonderful 2023 NL Cosmos Book Prize Ceremony in Amsterdam! Here's an unofficial video, w/ cameo from Nobel laureate G. Parisi 00:38! 🍾 to winners @stanbentvelsen @vancalmthout (book on Higgs) & Margriet vd Heijden (extraordinary women in science) 👏 More: cosmosboekenprijs.nl
THANK YOU to @jimfjansen, to the scientific jury,
@IvovanVulpen (chair), Rosanne Herzberger, Keri Vos, Jan Bouwe, Floris van der Tak, and to the organisers including @NewScientistNL Eline Kraaijenvanger, Maureen Voestermans, @jpschaar, ... 👏👏👏
Thank you to @jimfjansen, to the scientific jury, @IvovanVulpen (chair), Rosanne Herzberger, Keri Vos, Jan Bouwe, Floris van der Tak, and to the organisers including @NewScientistNL Eline Kraaijenvanger, Maureen Voestermans, @jpschaar
📢 New jobs 📢! We are seeking 1 PhD and 1 postdoc for an exciting project on gravitational wave probes of particle dark matter 🛰️🌊⚫️ Further details, including salary and benefits: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Pos… vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD… @GRAPPAinstitute @UvA_Amsterdam @samayanissanke










