Black hole physics; Gauge/gravity duality and holography; (Super)Gravity theories in diverse dimensions.

Personal web page: https://fis.ucv.cl/omiskovic/

* BSc students

2013 Diego Teca
BSc Thesis: Numerical evidence of holographic superconductivity in AdS gravity.

2014 Paula Quezada
BSc Thesis: Entropy of extreme black holes

2015 Danilo Tapia
BSc Thesis: Black hole stability in gravity with the Gauss-Bonnet term.

2015 Constanza Callender
BSc Thesis: Phase transitions of black holes in AdS space.

2016 Gabriel Arenas
BSc Thesis: Conformal mass in Lovelock AdS gravity. (Director: Rodrigo Olea)

2019 Alejandro Varas
BSc Thesis: Asymptotic symmetries of flat spacetime

2020 Matias Zamorano
BSc Thesis: Minisuperspace approximation in Einstein-Maxwell gravity

2022 Cielo Ramírez
BSc Thesis: Conical defects and their application to black hole physics. (Co-Director: R. Olea)

2022 Oriana Labrin
BSc Thesis: Asymptotic symmetries of electromagnetism on the light cone (Co-Director: H. González)

2023 Nicolás Sarmiento
BSc Thesis: Weyl semimetals and their holographic description

2024 Franisco Pacheco
BSc Thesis: Radiative systems in a Hamiltonian framework

* MSc students:

2019 Danilo Tapía
MSc Thesis: Finite Lovelock gravity with the unique anti-de Sitter vacuum (Co-advisor: Rodrigo Olea )

2023 Alejandro Varas
MSc Thesis: Asymptotic symmetries of gravity at null infinity in first order formalism

2025 Oriana Labrin
Hamiltonian symmetries on the null boundary of gauge theories (Co-Director: H. González)

2024--(in progress) Antonia Montencinos
Edge variables on the null boundary (Co-Director: Tatjana Vukasinac)

* PhD students

2016 Ligeia Aranguiz
PhD Thesis: Lovelock holographic superconductors

2022 Francisco Javier Moreno
Entanglement entropy in higher curvature gravity (Director: Rodrigo Olea)

2023. Darío Lopez
Black holes in AdS gravity and supersymmetry (Co-Director: Laura Andrianopoli)

2024 Paula Quezada
Thermodynamic stability of extremal black holes

2025 Francisca Ramírez
Physical properties of topological metals using holographic methods (Co-Director: Vladimir Juricic)

2023 --(in progress) Alejandro Varas
Aspects of asymptotic symmetries in flat spaces

* Postdoctoral researchers

FONDECYT postdoc (2023-2026) Yolbeiker Rodriguez
FONDECYT postdoc (2019-2022) Georgios Anastasiou
FONDECYT postdoc (2018-2021) Arindam Lala
FONDECYT postdoc (2016-2019) Roy Debraj
FONDECYT postdoc (2016-2019) Omar Valdivia
FONDECYT postdoc (2014-2017) Xiao-Mei Kuang
FONDECYT postdoc (2013-2016) Remigiusz Ryszard Durka
FONDECYT postdoc (2012-2015) Nelson Ruben Merino Moncada

VRIEA PUCV postdoc Debraj Roy
VRIEA PUCV postdoc Arindam Lala
VRIEA PUCV postdoc Diego Sebastian Molina Peñafiel

* PhD exam committee member

2011 Marco Astorino (PUCV-CECs)
2013 Fiorenza de Micheli (PUCV-CECs)
2015 Adolfo Toloza (PUCV-CECs)
2016 Simón del Pino (PUCV)
2016 Israel Ramirez (USM-UNAB)
2016 David Choque (USM)
2018 Giorgios Anastasiou (UNAB)
2020 Milko Estrada (UA)

* MSc exam committee member

2013 René Araneda (UNAB)
2018 Pablo Guilleminot (UNAB)
2019 David Rivera-Betancour (UNAB)
2019 Gabriel Arenas Henríquez (UNAB)
2019 Carlos Pizarro (PUCV)
2021 Sergio Aburto (PUCV)
2021 Paula Hermosilla (PUCV)

* Qualifying exam committee member (last 5 years)

2012 PhD Program UTFSM-PUCV, Exam Quantum Mechanics
2014 PhD Program UTFSM-PUCV, Exam Electrodynamics
2017 PhD Program UTFSM-PUCV, Exam Quantum Mechanics
2018 PhD Program UTFSM-PUCV, Exam Quantum Mechanics
2019 PhD Program UTFSM-PUCV, Exam Quantum Mechanics

* Minicourses

2017, Minicourse "Introduction to Gauge/Gravity Duality",The Fourth Afro-Franco-Brazilian Meeting on Mathematics and Physics, Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques, Dangbo, Bénin

2018, Minicourse "Holography", “Winter School: Topics on Gravitículas”, PUC Chile

2018, Minicourse “Differential geometry in a nutshell with applications", PUCV, Chile

2019, Minicourse “Holography in anti de Sitter gravity", Mesoamerican Centre for Theoretical Physics (MCTP),&
Faculty of Science in Physics and Mathematics, U. Autonoma de Chiapas (UNACH), Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico
(Minicourse joined with Rodrigo Olea)

2023 Two lectures on the holographic duality, Nordgrav@ICEN, Iquique, Chile.

2024 Infra-Red structure of asymptotically flat spaces, Andean School on Holography, Lima, Peru.

* Undergraduate courses teaching

General Physics: Electromagnetism
Mathematical Methods in Physics
Modern Physics
Quantum Mechanics I
Quantum Mechanics II
Quantum Mechanics III
Classical Field Theory
Quantum Field Theory
Introduction to General Relativity
Classical Mechanics
Hamiltonian systems with constraints

* Postgraduate courses teaching

Conformal Field Theory
General Relativity
Quantum Mechanics II
Quantum Mechanics II
Classical Mechanics
Mathematical methods in physics
Classical Field Theory
Hamiltonian systems with constraints
Tópicos en sistemas con bordes de tipo nulo

* Other relevant data

- Referee for the Program of Advanced Human Capital Training, ANID
- Member of the Study Group FONDECYT

2020 Presentation (Zoom) "Black holes, wormholes and other secrets of the Universe" at the High School Liceo José Cortés Brown, Viña del Mar

2019 IV Congreso Nacional de Ciencias Físicas y Astronómicas, U de Concepción. Charla magistral: “Holograma de un agujero negro”;

2019 Event "Congreso Futuro" in the Valparaiso region, Discussion “How the scientific world faces permanent challenge of need to explain reality and find paths to know the unknown”, with Michael Kosterlitz, U. de Oxford, Nobel Prize in physics in 2016.

2019 Colloquium "Holographic world dual to gravity", Physics Department, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV),
Mexico City, Mexico

2018, “Life and work of a singular genius”, Special colloquium of the Faculty of Science PUCV, Dedicated to Stephen Hawking

2017 Presentation "Black holes,the most mysterious objects in the Universe" at the Astronomy Olympiad, School El Sauce, Los Andes

2016 Discussion about Universe and black holes, Radio Valentín Letelier

2016 Presentation "Gravity, geometry and space-time" at the High School Patricio Lynch, Valparaiso

2015 Presentation "Fundamental concepts of the String Theory" at the High School Monjas Francesas, Viña del Mar

2014 Presentation "What is the String Theory and why it is so successful?" at the High School San Rafael, Valparaiso

2104 Plenary talk and the II national congress of the students of science in physics and astronomy, with the tite "Holographic world dual to gravity"

2013 Presentation "Mission Impossible: Theory of everything" at the High School Santa Clara, Placilla, Valparaiso

2012 Presentation "An alternative Universe" at the Technical High School Andres Bello Lopez E-431, Quilpue

2012 Member of the evaluation committee of the primary and high school projects presented at the VI Scientific and Technologic Fair, at the Technical High School Andres Bello Lopez E-431, Quilpue

2011 Presentaion "Geometry of the Universe and fundamental forces", at the High School Ruben Castro, Viña del Mar