Cosimo Bambi

Cosimo Bambi (born 1980, Florence, Italy) is an Italian relativist and cosmologist who is currently a professor of Physics at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

Bambi's research interests include strong field tests of general relativity, modified gravity theories, gravitational waves, quantum gravity, accretion flow around black holes, baryogenesis, galaxy clusters, primordial black holes, whether black hole candidates obey the Kerr Metric, Inflation, antimatter, strange quark stars, neutron stars, naked singularities and other compact objects He has close to 100 publications in all the above topics and is highly cited. He has also written a monograph on particle cosmology.

Bambi received a Laurea degree from Florence University in 2003 and his Ph.D at University of Ferrara under the supervision of Sasha Dolgov. He had visiting positions in Wayne State University, IPMU, and LMU, before taking up a faculty position in Fudan University in Shanghai, China in 2012. He was awarded tenure in 2012 and promoted to Xie Xide Junior Chair Professor of Physics in 2016.

2015: Alexander von Humboldt Prize