Astroparticle Physics, Dall-E 3 (2023)
I am a Professor of Theoretical Astroparticle Physics at the Center of Excellence in Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics of the U. of Amsterdam, GRAPPA (Gravitation, AstroParticle Physics Amsterdam).
I currently lead a research team supported by NWO and by the ERC Advanced Grant De Tenebris, focused on the rapidly emerging field of gravitational wave probes of dark matter. An overview of my research interests, main results, and broader scientific contributions is available on this page.
From 2019 to 2024, I was the founding director of the European Consortium for Astroparticle Physics (EuCAPT). Before then, from 2012 to 2019, I was the founding spokesperson of GRAPPA.
Besides scientific research and teaching, I am active in science outreach. In addition to writing popular science books, and giving public lectures, I’m involved in various initiatives to advocate the importance of scientific culture.
In 2018, I launched the Cosmos Prize Initiative to bring together science, culture, and education, and to foster scientific literacy through awe, curiosity, and a lasting sense of wonder about the universe. Since then, the initiative has engaged thousands of high-school students in Italy, the Netherlands, and France and Spain.
The initiative has since grown into the Global Cosmos Prize Programme for Science Literacy, endorsed as a programme of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (2024-2033), a United Nations initiative whose implementation is led by UNESCO.
Contact information: Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904
Postbus 94485, 1090 GL Amsterdam, NL
Email: g.bertone at uva.nl