Faculty
Matteo Baggioli Associate Professor
  • Wilczek Quantum Center
  • Theoretical High Energy Physics, Soft Matter Theory
  • Room 813, No. 5 Science Building
  • b.matteo@sjtu.edu.cn
  • https://www.theorylab-sjtu.com

Biographical Sketch: 

2020 - Associate Professor (tenure track), Wilczek Quantum Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

2018 - 2020 Postdoc, Institute of Theoretical Physics IFT Madrid, UAM (Spain).

2016 - 2018 Postdoc, Crete Center for Theoretical Physics, Heraklion (Greece).

2013 - 2016 PhD in Theoretical Physics, Institute of High Energy Physics (IFAE), UAB Barcelona (Spain).

2015 - 2016 Visiting PhD fellow, Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, University of Illinois (USA).

2009 - 2012 MSc in Theoretical Physics, University of Genova (Italy).

2006 - 2009 BSc in Physics, University of Genova (Italy).


Research Interests:

(1)    Gauge-Gravity duality, AdS-CFT correspondence, Applied Holography and Black Hole Physics

(2)    Effective field theory, Hydrodynamics and Goldstone modes

(3)    Universal bounds on transport

(4)    Spontaneous symmetry breaking and higher form symmetries

(5)    Non-Hermitian field theory

(6)    Viscoelasticity, rheology and elasticity in amorphous systems

(7)    Anomalous glassy properties in ordered systems

(8)    Vibrational and thermodynamical properties of liquids

(9)    Plasticity and nonaffine dynamics

(10)  Superconductivity under high-pressure and in amorphous systems


  1. Baggioli, M., Kriuchevskyi, I., Sirk, T. W., & Zaccone, A. (2021). Plasticity in amorphous solids is mediated by topological defects in the displacement field. Phys. Rev. Lett., 127, 015501.

  2. Zaccone, A., & Baggioli, M. (2021). Universal law for the vibrational density of states of liquids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(5).

  3. Baggioli, M., Grieninger, S., & Soltanpanahi, H. (2020). Nonlinear oscillatory shear tests in viscoelastic holography. Phys. Rev. Lett., 124, 081601.

  4. Baggioli, M., Vasin, M., Brazhkin, V., & Trachenko, K. (2020). Gapped momentum states. Physics Reports, 865, 1–44.

  5. Baggioli, M., & Zaccone, A. (2019). Universal origin of boson peak vibrational anomalies in ordered crystals and in amorphous materials. Phys. Rev. Lett., 122, 145501.

  6. Alberte, L., Ammon, M., Jiménez-Alba, A., Baggioli, M., & Pujolàs, O. (2018). Holographic phonons. Phys. Rev. Lett., 120, 171602.

  7. M., & Pujolas, O. (2015). Electron-phonon interactions, Metal-Insulator transitions, and holographic massive gravity, Phys. Rev. Lett., 114, 251602, Editor’s Suggestions.

  8. Alberte, L., Baggioli, M., Khmelnitsky, A., & Pujolas, O. (2016). Solid Holography and Massive Gravity. JHEP, 02, 114.

  9. Alberte, L., Baggioli, M., & Pujolas, O. (2016). Viscosity bound violation in holographic solids and the viscoelastic response. JHEP, 07, 074.

  10. Baggioli, M. (2019). Applied Holography: A Practical Mini-Course. Springer Briefs in Physics.


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