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, developing theoretical and computational models to identify dark-matter imprints in gravitational-wave signals.
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