Anna Ceresole

Ceresole was born in Turin and studied at the University of Turin.[1] Her thesis considered Kaluza–Klein theory supergravity, which she worked on under the supervision of Hermann Nicolai.[2] She earned her PhD at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1989, working with Peter van Nieuwenhuizen.[1] Here she was a Fulbright Program Fellow.[1]

Ceresole joined California Institute of Technology in 1989, working as a postdoctoral fellow.[1] She was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Turin in 1992.[1] In 1998 she joined CERN as a visiting scientist. She was made Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin in 2003.[1] In 2004 she described a superpotential that supported a class of stable external black holes.[3] She works on special Kähler manifold geometry and black hole charges.[4][5] She studied the constituents of small black holes and their horizontal symmetry.[3][6]

She holds a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant, Supersymmetry, Quantum Gravity and Gauge Fields.[7] She is a coordinator for the European Cooperation in Science and Technology String Theory Universe COST action.[8][9]

In 2015 she was appointed as the coordinator of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Theory Group.[10] In 2017 she coordinated the inaugural conference at the Arnold Regge Centre, a collaboration between the University of Turin and University of Eastern Piedmont.[11] She has coordinated several international string theory conferences.[12][13] She has contributed to many important textbooks on geometry and supergravity.[2][4][14][15]