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Radouane Gannouji

Associate professor

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaiso, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Cosmology, dark energy, black holes, extended theories of gravity, higher dimensional gravity

Educación

  •  Dark energy, modified gravity, UNIVERSITE MONTPELLIER II. Francia, 2008
  •  Theoretical Physics, ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE DE PARIS. Francia, 2005

Experiencia Académica

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Science

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2014 - 2018

  •   Postdoctorate Full Time

    UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL

    Durban, Suráfrica

    2012 - 2014

  •   Postdoctorate Full Time

    TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE (TUS)

    Tokyo, Japón

    2010 - 2012

  •   Postdoctorate Full Time

    UNIVERSITY OF PUNE

    IUCAA

    Pune, India

    2008 - 2010

  •   Associate professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Science

    valparaíso, Chile

    2018 - 2024

  •   Full Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Science

    valparaíso, Chile

    2025 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Associate professor Full Time

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2014 - 2024

  •   Postdoctoral researcher Full Time

    University of KwaZulu-Natal

    Durban, Suráfrica

    2012 - 2014

  •   Postdoctoral researcher Full Time

    Tokyo University Of Science

    Tokio, Japón

    2010 - 2012

  •   Postdoctoral researcher Full Time

    Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics

    Pune, India

    2008 - 2010

  •   Full professor Full Time

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2025 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


* Undergraduate courses:
2015: Mathematical methods 2
2016: General physics electromagnetism
2016: Classical Mechanics
2017: Introduction to General Relativity
2017: Modern physics
2018: Quantum mechanics 1
2019: Mathematical methods of physics
2020: Statistical physics
2020: Introduction to General Relativity
2021: Mechanics
2021: Modern Physics
2022: Introduction to General Relativity
2022: Statistical physics
2022: Classical Mechanics
2023: Modern Physics
2023: General Physics: Quantum and Statistical
2023: Statistical physics
2024: Physics 2
2024: Modern Physics
2024: Fluid Mechanics
2025: Statistical physics

* Postgraduate courses:
2014: Cosmology
2015: Methods of mathematical physics
2016: Classical mechanics
2017: Introduction to General Relativity
2018: Quantum mechanics 1
2019: Advanced course in general relativity
2020: Classical mechanics
2020: Advanced course in general relativity
2021: Advanced black holes
2022: Introduction to General Relativity
2023: Advanced black holes
2025: Introduction to General Relativity

* Mini-course:
2015: Cosmo-UFES (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo) - Vitória - Brazil
2017: Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques - Université d'Abomey-Calavi - Dangbo - Bénin
2017: CTP (Center for Theoretical Physics) - Jamia Millia Islamia - New Delhi - India
2021: Verão Quântico, Guarapari, Brasil
2021: Inverno Astrofísico, Domingos Martins, Brasil
2021: Patricio Letelier School on Mathematical Physics, Online, Youtube
2022: Estate Quantistica, Scalea, Italy
2022: VI José Plínio Baptista School of Cosmology, Pedra Azul, Espírito Santo, Brasil
2022: Inverno Astrofísico, Domingos Martins, Brasil
2023: Verão Quântico, Ubu, Anchieta, Brasil

* Undergraduate thesis:
2018: Miguel Fuentes - Complementariedad en las correcciones a la gravedad newtoniana
2018: Jaime Menendez - Agujeros del espacio-tiempo
2019: Sebastian Andrade - Estabilidad del agujero negro de Schwarzschild bajo perturbaciones de la métrica
2019: Camila Aros - La expansión acelerada del Universo
2020: Waleska Osses - La constante de Hubble y el modelo cosmológico estándar
2020: Nicolas Pinochet - Termodinámica de agujeros negros y radiación de Hawking
2021: Mahina Montoya - Diagramas de Penrose y la estructura causal de los agujeros negros
2021: Macarena Henriquez - Solitones Topológicos para soluciones estáticas tipo kink y lump
2022: Antonia Montecinos - (In)estabilidad de agujeros negros
2023: Vicente Cabrera - Entropía de entrelazamiento
2024: Agustín Ibarra - Estudio de ecuación de estado para estrella de neutrones

* Master thesis:
2008: Angelique Pages - Dark energy problem
2016-2017: Carla Bernal - Structure formation in modified gravity
2017-2019: Carlos Pizarro - Stability of black holes in Horndeski gravity
2017-2020: Sebastián Jara - Critical collapse of massless scalar field
2023-2024: Alejandro Mauricio Guzmán Antonucci - Stability of Asymptotically Flat Hairy Black Holes

* PhD thesis:
2017-2023: Aníbal Faúndez - Solitón no topológico con campo escalar no canónico
2017-2021: Yolbeiker Rodríguez - Classical stability and formation of black holes beyond general relativity
2018- : Carla Bernal - Non-linear evolution in modified gravity
2023- : Nicolas Pinochet - Entanglement entropy
2024- : Marcelo Rozas - Black hole stability

* Referee of PhD thesis:
2015: Carlos González
2016: Ligeia Aranguiz
2016: Roberto Perez
2019: Manuel González
2022: Lina Castiblanco Tolosa
2023: Darío López Díaz
2024: Alexsandre L. Ferreira Jr ( Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brasil)
2025: Romina Ballesteros

* Referee of Master thesis
2016: Puebla Núñez
2017: Francisca Ramírez
2019: Fabrizzio Merello
2019: Danilo Tapia
2020: Paulo Rojas
2020: Romina Ballesteros
2021: Alicia Castro Montes
2021: Jorge Patricio Maggiolo Tapia
2021: Raúl Carrasco
2021: Michél Andre Housset Búrquez
2022: MA van der Westhuizen (North-West University, South Africa)
2022: Katherine Andrea González Mansilla
2022: Camila Natalia Aros Bunster
2023: Alejandro Aaron Varas Zamora

* Training students during summer break:
2017: Katherine González, Miguel Fuentes y Diego Vargas


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Research Council of Norway

    UNIVERSITY OF OSLO

    Noruega, 2011

    In collaboration with Dr. David F. Mota from the University of Oslo, we won the YGGDRASIL project, a 10 months to study the nature of Dark Energy.

  •   Best teacher 2018

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Chile, 2018

    Elected best teacher in physics of the year 2018.

  •   Best teacher 2022

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO

    Chile, 2022

    Elected best teacher in physics of the year 2022.


 

Article (34)

Global properties of the growth index: Mathematical aspects and physical relevance
Bigravity and Horndeski gravity connected by a disformal coupling
Global properties of the growth index of matter inhomogeneities in the Universe
Pure Lovelock black holes in dimensions d=3N+1 are stable
Relativistic cosmological large scale structures at one-loop
Black hole stability under odd-parity perturbations in Horndeski gravity
Consistency of modified gravity with a decreasing Geff (z) in a ?cDM background
Consistency of the expansion of the Universe with density perturbations
DGP black holes on the brane
Global structure of static spherically symmetric solutions surrounded by quintessence
Global structure of static spherically symmetric solutions surrounded by quintessence
Early-time cosmological solutions in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory
Gauss-Bonnet inflation
Global structure of black holes via the dynamical system
Neutron stars in the Starobinsky model
Stability and existence analysis of static black holes in pure Lovelock theories
Quasidilaton nonlinear massive gravity: Investigations of background cosmological dynamics
Spontaneous symmetry breaking in cosmos: The hybrid symmetron as a dark energy switching device
Generic f(R) theories and classicality of their scalarons
Light mass galileons: Cosmological dynamics, mass screening and observational constraints
Vainshtein mechanism in Gauss-Bonnet gravity and Galileon aether
FLRW cosmology in Weyl-integrable space-time
Background cosmological dynamics in f(R) gravity and observational constraints
Chameleon dark energy models with characteristic signatures
Galileon gravity and its relevance to late time cosmic acceleration
Modified gravity a la Galileon: Late time cosmic acceleration and observational constraints
Constraining f(R) gravity models with disappearing cosmological constant
Dispersion of growth of matter perturbations in f(R) gravity
The dispersion of growth of matter perturbations in f(R) gravity
The growth of matter perturbations in f(R) models
On the growth of linear perturbations
The growth of matter perturbations in some scalar-tensor DE models
Conditions for the cosmological viability of f(R) dark energy models
Scalar-tensor models of normal and phantom dark energy

ConferencePaper (3)

Study of Vainshtein mechanism in Galileon theory
Scalar-Tensor Dark Energy Models
The growth of the matter perturbations in f(R) models

Proyecto (9)

Historia Térmica del Universo=> Nucleosíntesis y elementos de la Bariogénesis (Thermal History of Universe=> Nucleosynthesis and elements of Baryogenesis)
Non-Local gravity
Nonlocal Cosmology
On the Viability of Theories Beyond Einstein's General Relativity
Unveil dark energy through structures formation in our universe
Brane models
Teorías de gravedad modificada
Dark energy and modified gravity
Modified gravity as an alternative to dark energy

Review (1)

A primer on modified gravity
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Radouane Gannouji

Associate professor

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaiso, Chile

1
Genly Leon

Académico

Universidad Católica del Norte

Antofagasta, Chile

1
Jorge Noreña

Associate Professor

Facultad de Ciencias

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Manuel González

Profesor tiempo parcial

Instituto de Física

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Curauma, Chile