Student Research


Niko Poplawski with Francisco Guedes.


With Mike Del Grosso.


With Jordan Cubero (left) and Gabe Unger (right).

Research Projects:
  • Francisco Guedes
    Co-author of:
    General-relativistic wave-particle duality with torsion, Class. Quantum Grav. 41, 065011 (2024).
  • Michael Del Grosso
    Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research, Summer 2021.
    Co-author of:
    The Origin of the Born Rule from Spacetime Averaging, arXiv:2110.06392 (2021),
    Torsional Regularization of Self-Energy and Bare Mass of Electron, arXiv:2107.01612 (2021).
    Co-starred in a TV show Leben wir in einem Schwarzen Loch?, 42 - Die Antwort auf fast alles, ARTE (2022).
  • Hang Su
    Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), co-supervised with Dr. Kevin Green, 2021:
    Can the shape of our Universe explain the dark matter?
  • Jordan Cubero
    Co-author of:
    Analysis of big bounce in Einstein-Cartan cosmology, Class. Quantum Grav. 37, 025011 (2020).
  • Gabriel Unger
    Co-author of:
    Big bounce and closed universe from spin and torsion, Astrophys. J. 870, 78 (2019).
  • Mark Herde
    Honors Thesis, Spring 2017:
    Gravitization of quantum mechanics to explain wave function collapse.
  • Daniel Delgado
    SURF 2015:
    An Analysis of Propulsion Technology in Electric Trains on the New Haven Line.
  • Antonio Di Vita
    SURF 2015:
    Will the addition of a shield increase the efficiency of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine?
  • Charles Peterson
    SURF 2015:
    Was our Universe born in a black hole?