Gwenaël
Ferrando

Dr. Gwenaël Ferrando is an Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellow in the Raymond & Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Amit Sever.

Gwenaël’s work deals with theoretical problems in high energy physics, particularly models for which an exact analytic solution is believed achievable.

Gwenaël hopes to gain insights into more general issues, such as non- perturbative aspects of quantum field theory or the so-called AdS/CFT correspondence. The latter is a promising conjecture that certain quantum field theories are equivalent to some string theories, which are themselves the best candidates for theories of quantum gravity.

Gwenaël was born in France and studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris where he obtained undergraduate degrees in both physics and mathematics and a master’s degree in theoretical physics. He then went on to complete a PhD under the joint supervision of Prof. Vladimir Kazakov at the École normale supérieure and Dr. Didina Serban at the Institut de Physique Théorique in Saclay. In his free time, Gwenaël enjoys reading, watching movies, hiking, and travelling.