BIMSA > Luis Apolo
Assistant Professor Luis Apolo

Group: Quantum Fields and Strings

Email: apolo@bimsa.cn

Webpage: http://lui-apolo.github.io

Education Experience

  • 2009 - 2014      New York University      Theoretical Physics      Doctor      Thesis: “Variations on holography from modifications of gravity in anti-de Sitter”      (Supervisor: Massimo Porrati)
  • 2005 - 2009      City College of New York      Physics and Mathematics      Bachelor

Work Experience

  • 2023 -      BIMSA      Assistant Professor
  • 2021 - 2023      University of Amsterdam      Postdoc
  • 2020 - 2021      BIMSA      Assistant Professor
  • 2017 - 2020      Tsinghua University      Postdoc
  • 2014 - 2017      Stockholm University      Postdoc
  • 2011 - 2014      New York University      Graduate Research Assistant

Publication

  • [1] L. Apolo, The on-shell action of supergravity & the B-side of TsT and single-trace TTbar , arXiv.2508.19246 (2025)
  • [2] L. Apolo, S. Bintanja, A. Castro, D. Liska, The light we can see: Extracting black holes from weak Jacobi forms, JHEP, 10 (2024)
  • [3] L. Apolo, A. Belin, S. Bintanja, Searching for strongly coupled AdS matter with multi-trace deformations, arXiv:2401.15141 (2024)
  • [4] L. Apolo, P. Hao, W. Lai, W. Song, Extremal surfaces in glue-on AdS/TTbar holography, JHEP, 01 (2024)
  • [5] L. Apolo, A. Belin, S. Bintanja, A. Castro, C. A. Keller, Conformal field theories dual to quantum gravity with strongly coupled matter, Phys. Rev. D, 108 (2023)
  • [6] L. Apolo, P. Hao, W. Lai, W. Song, Glue-on AdS holography for TTbar-deformed CFTs, JHEP, 06 (2023)
  • [7] L. Apolo, W.Song, B. Yu, On the universal behavior of TTbar-deformed CFTs: single and double-trace partition functions at large c, JHEP, 05 (2023)
  • [8] L. Apolo, A. Belin, S. Bintanja, A. Castro, C. A. Keller, Deforming symmetric product orbifolds: a tale of moduli and higher spin currents, JHEP, 08 (2022)
  • [9] L. Apolo, W. Song, TsT, black holes and TTbar + JTbar + TJbar, JHEP, 04 (2022)
  • [10] L. Apolo, H. Jiang, W. Song, Y. Zhong, Modular Hamiltonians in flat holography and (W)AdS/WCFT, JHEP, 09 (2020)
  • [11] L. Apolo, W. Song, Heating up holography for single-trace JTbar deformations, JHEP, 01 (2020)
  • [12] L. Apolo, S. Detournay, W. Song, TsT, TTbar and black strings, JHEP, 06 (2020)
  • [13] L. Apolo, H. Jiang, W. Song , Y. Zhong, Swing surfaces and holographic entanglement beyond AdS/CFT, JHEP, 12 (2020)
  • [14] L. Apolo, S. He, W. Song, J. Xu, J. Zheng, Entanglement and chaos in warped conformal field theories, JHEP, 04 (2019)
  • [15] L. Apolo, W. Song, Strings on warped AdS3 via TJbar deformations, JHEP, 10 (2018)
  • [16] L. Apolo, W. Song, Bootstrapping holographic warped CFTs or: how I learned to stop worrying and tolerate negative norms, JHEP, 07 (2018)
  • [17] L. Apolo, Bounds on CFTs with W3 algebras and AdS3 higher spin theories, Phys. Rev. D, 96 (2017)
  • [18] L. Apolo, S. F. Hassan, Non-linear partially massless symmetry in an SO(1,5) continuation of conformal gravity, Class. Quant. Grav., 34 (2017)
  • [19] L Apolo, SF Hassan, A Lundkvist, Gauge and global symmetries of the candidate partially massless bimetric gravity, Phys. Rev. D, 94 (2016)
  • [20] L. Apolo, The covariant action of higher spin black holes in three dimensions, JHEP, 05 (2016)
  • [21] L.Apolo, B. Sundborg, The sky is the limit: free boundary conditions in AdS3 Chern-Simons theory, Higher Spin Gauge Theories (2016)
  • [22] L. Apolo, B. Sundborg, Strings from 3D gravity: asymptotic dynamics of AdS33​ gravity with free boundary conditions, JHEP, 06 (2015)
  • [23] L. Apolo, M. Porrati, Free boundary conditions and the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence, JHEP, 03 (2014)
  • [24] L. Apolo, M. Porrati, Nonlinear dynamics of parity-even tricritical gravity in three and four dimensions, JHEP, 08 (2012)
  • [25] L Apolo, M Porrati, On AdS/CFT without massless gravitons, Phys. Lett. B, 714 (2012)
  • [26] G. Claussen, L. Apolo, O. Melchert, A.K. Hartmann, Analysis of the loop length distribution for the negative weight percolation problem in dimensions d=2 through 6, Phys. Rev. E, 86 (2012)
  • [27] O. Melchert, L. Apolo, A.K. Hartmann, The upper critical dimension of the negative-weight percolation problem, Phys. Rev. E, 81 (2010)
  • [28] L. Apolo, O. Melchert, A. K. Hartmann, Phase transitions in diluted negative-weight percolation models, Phys. Rev. E, 79 (2009)

 

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