
Professor Dionysios Anninos
Professor of Theoretical Physics
Research interests
- Mathematics
Biography
Dionysios graduated from Cornell University, and obtained his PhD at Harvard University under the supervision of Professor Andrew Strominger. After that he held research positions at Stanford University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and was the Delta ITP fellow at the University of Amsterdam. In 2018 he was awarded a University Research Fellowship from the Royal Society and moved to King’s College London.
Research interests
Dionysios’ research lies at the interface of black hole physics, cosmology and the gauge/gravity duality. An important goal of Dionysios' research is to extend modern ideas such as the AdS/CFT correspondence to a more general class of spacetimes. These include spacetimes experiencing an accelerated phase of expansion, including those describing our own Universe during its early and late time cosmological epochs. The models and mathematical tools Dionysios applies in his research include higher spin gauge theories, matrix models, conformal field theory, Euclidean quantum gravity, lower dimensional models, and the theory of disorder and glassiness. One of Dionysios' research aims to construct and develop simplified models of cosmological spacetimes that exhibit enhanced mathematical control. In turn, such models can be studied throughout regimes where standard tools describing physical phenomena at low energies or large scales, such as effective field theory, need to be replaced.
Further information
Remarks on 2D quantum cosmology
Anninos, D., Baracco, C. & Mühlmann, B., 1 Oct 2024, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024, 10, 031.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
De Sitter at all loops: the story of the Schwinger model
Anninos, D., Anous, T. & Fukelman, A. R., Aug 2024, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024, 8, 155.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Cosmological observatories
Anninos, D., Galante, D. A. & Maneerat, C., 15 Aug 2024, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 41, 16, 165009.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The discreet charm of the discrete series in dS2
Anninos, D., Anous, T., Pethybridge, B. & Şengör, G., 12 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 57, 2, 025401.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Renormalisation group flows of deformed SYK models
Anninos, D., Galante, D. A. & Sheorey, S. U., 27 Nov 2023, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023, 11, 197.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gravitational observatories
Anninos, D., Galante, D. A. & Maneerat, C., 4 Dec 2023, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023, 12, 24.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
dS2 supergravity
Anninos, D., Genolini, P. B. & Mühlmann, B., 21 Nov 2023, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023, 11, 145.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Finite features of quantum de Sitter space
Anninos, D., Galante, D. A. & Muhlmann, B., 19 Jan 2023, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 40, 2, 025009.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Foreword to the Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute “School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity” (CORFU2021)
Anagnostopoulos, K., Anninos, D., Anous, T., Bachas, C., Carmona, J. M., Chatzistavrakidis, A., Fotopoulos, A., Giataganas, D., Grana, M., Gubitosi, G., Kalinowski, J., Mavromatos, N., Nishimura, J., Rebelo, M. N., Saridakis, E., Steinacker, H., Stieberger, S., Szabo, R., Vitale, P. & Watamura, S. & 1 others, Zoupanos, G., 23 Nov 2022, In: Proceedings of Science. 406, 362.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Interpolating geometries and the stretched dS2 horizon
Anninos, D. & Harris, E., Dec 2022, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022, 11, 166.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
One-dimensional Quantum Gravity and the Schwarzian theory
Anninos, D., Hofman, D. M. & Vitouladitis, S., Mar 2022, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022, 3, 121.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Quantum de Sitter horizon entropy from quasicanonical bulk, edge, sphere and topological string partition functions
Anninos, D., Denef, F., Law, Y. T. A. & Sun, Z., Jan 2022, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022, 1, 88.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The semiclassical gravitational path integral and random matrices (toward a microscopic picture of a dS2 universe)
Anninos, D. & Mühlmann, B., Dec 2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 12, 206.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Three-dimensional de Sitter horizon thermodynamics
Anninos, D. & Harris, E., Oct 2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 10, 91.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The two-sphere partition function in two-dimensional quantum gravity
Anninos, D., Bautista, T. & Mühlmann, B., Sept 2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 9, 116.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Charged quantum fields in AdS2
Anninos, D., Hofman, D. M. & Kruthoff, J., Oct 2019, In: SciPost Physics. 7, 4, 054.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Matrix integrals & finite holography
Anninos, D. & Mühlmann, B., Jun 2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 6, 120.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Constructing AdS2 flow geometries
Anninos, D. & Galante, D. A., 4 Feb 2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 2, p. 1-41 43 p., 45.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Notes on matrix models (matrix musings)
Anninos, D. & Mühlmann, B., Aug 2020, In: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2020, 8, 083109.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Notes on matrix models
Anninos, D. & Muhlmann, B., 2 Apr 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: arXiv.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Charged Quantum Fields in AdS_2
Anninos, D. T., Hofman, D. & Kruthoff, J., 23 Oct 2019, In: SciPost.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Higher spin realization of the DS/CFT correspondence
Anninos, D., Hartman, T. & Strominger, A., 5 Aug 2017, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 34, 1, 015009.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
De Sitter horizons & holographic liquids
Anninos, D., Galante, D. A. & Hofman, D. M., 8 Jul 2019, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 38, 7, 38.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Cosmological shapes of higher-spin gravity
Anninos, D., De Luca, V., Franciolini, G., Kehagias, A. & Riotto, A., Apr 2019, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2019, 4, 045.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Chern-Simons-Ghost theories and De Sitter space
Anninos, D. T., Mahajan, R., Radičević, Đ. & Shaghoulian, E., 15 Jan 2015, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 74, 42 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Late-time structure of the Bunch-Davies de Sitter wavefunction
Anninos, D. T., Anous, T., Freedman, D. Z. & Konstantinidis, G., 30 Nov 2015, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Large N matrices from a nonlocal spin system
Anninos, D. T., Hartnoll, S. A., Huijse, L. & Martin, V. L., 9 Sept 2015, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 32, 19, 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Grassmann matrix quantum mechanics
Anninos, D. T., Denef, F. & Monten, R., 21 Apr 2016, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 138, 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Disordered quivers and cold horizons
Anninos, D. T., Anous, T. & Denef, F., 15 Dec 2016, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 71, 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Solvable quantum Grassmann matrices
Anninos, D. T. & Silva, G. A., 3 Apr 2017, In: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Infrared realization of dS2 in AdS2
Anninos, D. T. & Hofman, D. M., 12 Mar 2018, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 35, 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Marginal deformations & rotating horizons
Anninos, D. T., Anous, T. & Tito D'Agnolo, R., 18 Dec 2017, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Higher Spin de Sitter Hilbert Space
Anninos, D., Denef, F., Monten, R. & Sun, Z., Oct 2019, In: JHEP. 2019, p. 83 71.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research

Theoretical Physics
The group is at the forefront of research in supersymmetry, string and M- theory and related areas.
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Events

GenHET meeting in String Theory
The meeting will include scientific talks that cover recent progress in string theory
Please note: this event has passed.
Remarks on 2D quantum cosmology
Anninos, D., Baracco, C. & Mühlmann, B., 1 Oct 2024, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024, 10, 031.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
De Sitter at all loops: the story of the Schwinger model
Anninos, D., Anous, T. & Fukelman, A. R., Aug 2024, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024, 8, 155.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Cosmological observatories
Anninos, D., Galante, D. A. & Maneerat, C., 15 Aug 2024, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 41, 16, 165009.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The discreet charm of the discrete series in dS2
Anninos, D., Anous, T., Pethybridge, B. & Şengör, G., 12 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 57, 2, 025401.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Renormalisation group flows of deformed SYK models
Anninos, D., Galante, D. A. & Sheorey, S. U., 27 Nov 2023, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023, 11, 197.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gravitational observatories
Anninos, D., Galante, D. A. & Maneerat, C., 4 Dec 2023, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023, 12, 24.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
dS2 supergravity
Anninos, D., Genolini, P. B. & Mühlmann, B., 21 Nov 2023, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023, 11, 145.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Finite features of quantum de Sitter space
Anninos, D., Galante, D. A. & Muhlmann, B., 19 Jan 2023, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 40, 2, 025009.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Foreword to the Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute “School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity” (CORFU2021)
Anagnostopoulos, K., Anninos, D., Anous, T., Bachas, C., Carmona, J. M., Chatzistavrakidis, A., Fotopoulos, A., Giataganas, D., Grana, M., Gubitosi, G., Kalinowski, J., Mavromatos, N., Nishimura, J., Rebelo, M. N., Saridakis, E., Steinacker, H., Stieberger, S., Szabo, R., Vitale, P. & Watamura, S. & 1 others, Zoupanos, G., 23 Nov 2022, In: Proceedings of Science. 406, 362.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Interpolating geometries and the stretched dS2 horizon
Anninos, D. & Harris, E., Dec 2022, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022, 11, 166.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
One-dimensional Quantum Gravity and the Schwarzian theory
Anninos, D., Hofman, D. M. & Vitouladitis, S., Mar 2022, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022, 3, 121.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Quantum de Sitter horizon entropy from quasicanonical bulk, edge, sphere and topological string partition functions
Anninos, D., Denef, F., Law, Y. T. A. & Sun, Z., Jan 2022, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022, 1, 88.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The semiclassical gravitational path integral and random matrices (toward a microscopic picture of a dS2 universe)
Anninos, D. & Mühlmann, B., Dec 2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 12, 206.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Three-dimensional de Sitter horizon thermodynamics
Anninos, D. & Harris, E., Oct 2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 10, 91.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The two-sphere partition function in two-dimensional quantum gravity
Anninos, D., Bautista, T. & Mühlmann, B., Sept 2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 9, 116.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Charged quantum fields in AdS2
Anninos, D., Hofman, D. M. & Kruthoff, J., Oct 2019, In: SciPost Physics. 7, 4, 054.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Matrix integrals & finite holography
Anninos, D. & Mühlmann, B., Jun 2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 6, 120.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Constructing AdS2 flow geometries
Anninos, D. & Galante, D. A., 4 Feb 2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 2, p. 1-41 43 p., 45.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Notes on matrix models (matrix musings)
Anninos, D. & Mühlmann, B., Aug 2020, In: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2020, 8, 083109.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Notes on matrix models
Anninos, D. & Muhlmann, B., 2 Apr 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: arXiv.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Charged Quantum Fields in AdS_2
Anninos, D. T., Hofman, D. & Kruthoff, J., 23 Oct 2019, In: SciPost.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Higher spin realization of the DS/CFT correspondence
Anninos, D., Hartman, T. & Strominger, A., 5 Aug 2017, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 34, 1, 015009.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
De Sitter horizons & holographic liquids
Anninos, D., Galante, D. A. & Hofman, D. M., 8 Jul 2019, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 38, 7, 38.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Cosmological shapes of higher-spin gravity
Anninos, D., De Luca, V., Franciolini, G., Kehagias, A. & Riotto, A., Apr 2019, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2019, 4, 045.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Chern-Simons-Ghost theories and De Sitter space
Anninos, D. T., Mahajan, R., Radičević, Đ. & Shaghoulian, E., 15 Jan 2015, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 74, 42 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Late-time structure of the Bunch-Davies de Sitter wavefunction
Anninos, D. T., Anous, T., Freedman, D. Z. & Konstantinidis, G., 30 Nov 2015, In: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Large N matrices from a nonlocal spin system
Anninos, D. T., Hartnoll, S. A., Huijse, L. & Martin, V. L., 9 Sept 2015, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 32, 19, 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Grassmann matrix quantum mechanics
Anninos, D. T., Denef, F. & Monten, R., 21 Apr 2016, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 138, 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Disordered quivers and cold horizons
Anninos, D. T., Anous, T. & Denef, F., 15 Dec 2016, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 71, 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Solvable quantum Grassmann matrices
Anninos, D. T. & Silva, G. A., 3 Apr 2017, In: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Infrared realization of dS2 in AdS2
Anninos, D. T. & Hofman, D. M., 12 Mar 2018, In: Classical and Quantum Gravity. 35, 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Marginal deformations & rotating horizons
Anninos, D. T., Anous, T. & Tito D'Agnolo, R., 18 Dec 2017, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Higher Spin de Sitter Hilbert Space
Anninos, D., Denef, F., Monten, R. & Sun, Z., Oct 2019, In: JHEP. 2019, p. 83 71.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research

Theoretical Physics
The group is at the forefront of research in supersymmetry, string and M- theory and related areas.
News
Dr Teresa Bautista awarded Silver at STEM for Britain 2022
Teresa was awarded the silver medal for her presentation on “Mathematical microscopy into our expanding universe” at Parliament’s annual poster competition.

King's mathematician awarded Stephen Hawking fellowship
Dr Damián Galante awarded prestigious fellowship

Dr Damián Galante strikes Bronze for theoretical physics display in Parliament
In recognition for the excellence of his research in theoretical physics, Dr Damián Galante, Research Associate at the Department of Mathematics, has been...

Events

GenHET meeting in String Theory
The meeting will include scientific talks that cover recent progress in string theory
Please note: this event has passed.