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Astroparticle Physics emerged at SISSA as a multidisciplinary research field, combining astrophysics, cosmology, and particle physics. It aims to tackle fundamental questions about the Universe, including its origins, the true nature of gravity, gravitational waves, and the mysteries surrounding dark matter and dark energy. In the past years, this field has witnessed a rapid growth, also in connection to the wealth of new data and rich experimental programs in progress. The aim of the group is to conjugate these exciting phenomenological developments to the forefront of the theoretical research in the field.

The research group includes 5 faculty plus 2 affiliated members from SISSA, ICTP, IFPU and OAT. It also comprises 9 postdoctoral fellows and 17 graduate students. This activity covers a wide spectrum of research lines, ranging from fundamental interactions and their cosmological implications to alternatives classical and quantum theories of gravitation, from gravitational waves to the nature of dark energy and dark matter.

Researchers, postdocs and students working at SISSA can also take advantage of the rich environment of scientific institutions present in the Trieste area, such as the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), the Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IFPU) and the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste (OAT), with whom collaborations and diverse joint activities are promoted.