
Radouane Gannouji
Associate professor
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Valparaiso, Chile
Cosmology, dark energy, black holes, extended theories of gravity, higher dimensional gravity
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Dark energy, modified gravity, UNIVERSITE MONTPELLIER II. Francia, 2008
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Theoretical Physics, ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE DE PARIS. Francia, 2005
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Assistant Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO
Science
Valparaiso, Chile
2014 - 2018
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Postdoctorate Full Time
UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL
Durban, Suráfrica
2012 - 2014
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Postdoctorate Full Time
TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE (TUS)
Tokyo, Japón
2010 - 2012
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Postdoctorate Full Time
UNIVERSITY OF PUNE
IUCAA
Pune, India
2008 - 2010
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Associate professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO
Science
valparaíso, Chile
2018 - 2024
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Full Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO
Science
valparaíso, Chile
2025 - A la fecha
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Associate professor Full Time
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Valparaiso, Chile
2014 - 2024
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Postdoctoral researcher Full Time
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Durban, Suráfrica
2012 - 2014
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Postdoctoral researcher Full Time
Tokyo University Of Science
Tokio, Japón
2010 - 2012
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Postdoctoral researcher Full Time
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Pune, India
2008 - 2010
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Full professor Full Time
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Valparaiso, Chile
2025 - A la fecha
* 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
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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.
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Best teacher 2018
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO
Chile, 2018
Elected best teacher in physics of the year 2018.
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Best teacher 2022
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO
Chile, 2022
Elected best teacher in physics of the year 2022.
Study of Vainshtein mechanism in Galileon theory |
Scalar-Tensor Dark Energy Models |
The growth of the matter perturbations in f(R) models |
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 |
A primer on modified gravity |

Radouane Gannouji
Associate professor
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Valparaiso, Chile

Jorge Noreña
Associate Professor
Facultad de Ciencias
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Valparaíso, Chile

Manuel González
Profesor tiempo parcial
Instituto de Física
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Curauma, Chile