Selection of Talks

• String Landscape and Multiverse - Lectures
• Swampland, Stringy de Sitter, and the Measure Problem - Talk at "Planck 2025", Padua
• On Stringy de Sitter Vacua - Talk at Workshop on "Gravity, Strings and Supersymmetry Breaking", Pisa 2025
• Swampland, Cobordism, and the Beginning of the Universe - Talk at Workshop on "Quantum Spacetime and the Renormalization Group", Heidelberg 2025
• De Sitter, Landscape and the Measure Problem - Seminar Talk at Oxford University and at Joint belgian HEP Seminar in Brussles, 2025
• Outlook/Diskussion Talk at "Prospects for the String Axiverse", Banff Research Station, Canada, 2025
• End-of-the-World Branes and Inflationary Predictions for Rocky and Swampy Landscapes - Talk at the IFT workshop on Accelerated Expansion, de Sitter, & Strings: From the Landscape to the Swampland, Madrid 2024
• Loop Blow-up Inflation - Talk at String Pheno 2024, Padua
• Kinetic Mixing between Visible and Hidden U(1)s from String Theory - Online Colloquium of the COST Action CA21106 "Cosmic WISPers in the Dark Universe", 2024
• Cobordism, Bubbles of Anything and the Boundary Proposal - Talk at "Strings and Geometry 2024", Hamburg
• Loop Blow-up Inflation - Online Talk at AnLy Strings & Fields ("Theoretical physics activities in Annecy and Lyon"), Annecy 2024
• Cobordism, Bubbles of Anything and the Measure Problem - Talk at the Harvard Swampland Seminar Series, Harvard University 2024
• Geometrical Challenges for the String Landscape - Talk at Workshop "Hodge theory, Mirror Symmetry, and Physics of Calabi-Yau Moduli", Heidelberg 2023
• From String Landscape and Swampland to Cobordism and Wormholes - Talk at Quantum Gravity 2023, Nijmegen, Netherlands
• Challenges of Stringy de Sitter and Asymptotic Acceleration - Talk at String Pheno 2023, Daejeon, Korea
• Slaying the Hydra of Dark Radiation - Talk at the workshop "PADUA: Axions", 2022.
• From Wormholes and Baby Universes to Inflation and the Measure Problem - Talk at online workshop "Physics of the Early Universe", 2022.
• Challenges and phenomenological opportunities for the LVS - Talk at String Pheno 2022, Liverpool
• A Local Wheeler-DeWitt Measure for the String Landscape - Seminar Talks at Cambridge and Northeastern University, 2022
• The singular-bulk problem of KKLT - Talk at String Pheno 2021 (Online Conference)
• Completing the D7-brane local gaugino action - Talk at the Workshop "Challenges in string and supersymmetric cosmology", Leuven 2021
• Towards a Swampland Global Symmetry Conjecture - Talk at the Online Workshop on Quantum Gravity, Holography and Quantum Information, Munich 2021
• Weak Gravity and Swampland Conjectures - Review talk at the "Bethe Forum Workshop on Inflation", 2021
• De Sitter from String Theory: Control Issues of KKLT - Seminar talk in Vienna, 2020
• Landscape, Swampland and de Sitter - Talks at Pisa University and at Albert-Einstein-Institute, Golm, 2020
• Euclidean Wormholes, Baby Universes, and their Impact on Particle Physics and Cosmology - Talk in "Newton 1665" Seminar series 2020 (also in Nottingham and at Ben Gurion University)
• The Flatness of Axionic Potentials and KKLT in 10d - String Phenomenology Conference 2019 Talk at CERN
• Ultra-Light Axions, Weak Gravity, and Euclidean Wormholes - Talk at the Benasque Workshop on "Light scalars: origin, cosmology, astrophysics and experimental probes" 2019
• Gaugino condensation and KKLT from a 10d perspective - Talk at the Workshop "Navigating the Swampland", Madrid 2019
• The Higgs and other Thorns in the Side of the Swampland - Talk at the Workshop "Vistas over the Swampland", Madrid 2018
• De Sitter Swampland Conjectures and KKLT - Talk at the Workshop "Primordial black holes, de Sitter space and quantum tests of gravity", DESY/Hamburg 2019