I'm a theoretical physicist working on non-perturbative approaches in quantum fields, strings, and gravity.
I'm currently a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Barbara. Before that I was a postdoc at Princeton University. I obtained my PhD in theoretical physics at Harvard University in 2021.
Victor A. Rodriguez
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Physics
Office: Broida 6125
Department of Physics
Office: Broida 6125
Email: varodriguez@ucsb.edu
Recently, I have been interested in using string theory to learn about the quantum dynamics of particles in cosmological spacetimes; using string theory to study non-perturbative quantum effects in two-dimensional gravity; and bootstrapping statistical systems on a lattice.
Research interests
- worldsheet string theory: D-instantons, 2d string theories, matrix models and duality, string amplitudes
- low-dimensional quantum gravity
- cosmological backgrounds in string theory
- bootstrap techniques to solve strongly interacting physical systems
- AI for theoretical physics
Papers and talks
- For a complete and up-to-date list of my publications please visit my inSPIRE profile
- Here are slides and links for some of my recent talks
- Useful git repos: Fortuity
Brief CV
| University of California, Santa Barbara | postdoctoral fellow | 2024 — present |
| Princeton University | postdoctoral fellow | 2021 — 2024 |
| Harvard University | PhD | 2021 |
| University of Texas at Austin | undergraduate |