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Scientific activities

Publications

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  • F. Rescic, L. Recabarren Vergara, M. Doro, T. Terzić, "Is There New Physics Beyond 30 TeV in the BOAT?", ArXiv:2511.15542, (2025)

  • J.M. Carmona, J.L. Cortés, F. Rescic, M.A. Reyes, T. Terzić, "Photon Absorption in a Doubly Special Relativity Model with Undeformed Free Propagation and Total Momentum Conservation" (2025), ArXiv: 2503.15203, DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2025/07/066

  • SWGO Collaboration, "Science Prospects for the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory: SWGO", ArXiv: 2506.01786, (2025)

  • A. Batista, ..., F. Rescic, et al., "White Paper and Roadmap for Quantum Gravity Phenomenology in the Multi-Messenger Era", Classical and Quantum Gravity (2025), ArXiv: 2312.00409, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/ad605a

  • J.M. Carmona, J.L. Cortés, F. Rescic, M.A. Reyes, T. Terzić, F. I. Vrban, "Approaches to photon absorption in a Lorentz inavariance violation scenario", Phys.Rev.D 110 (2024), ArXiv: 2404.07842, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.063035

  • R. Emparan, E. Barakovic, R. Dekhil, F. Rescic, "Black holes in the classical and quantum world", Proceedings of Science - QG-MM School, PoS 004 (2024), Arxiv: 2306.11139, DOI: 10.22323/1.440.0004

Memberships

Current

  • COST Action CA23130 "Bridging high and low energies in search of quantum gravity" (BridgeQG)
  • Centro de Astropartículas y Física de Altas Energías (CAPA)
  • The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO)
  • Research group Wrinkle (Wrinkle)
  • Quantum Gravity Phenomenology research group of Zaragoza (QuGraPheno)

Past

  • COST Action CA18108 "Quantum Gravity Phenomenology in the Multi-Messenger Approach" (QGMM)

Funding

PhD Research

Supervisors

Progress

  • 3. 6. 2024. Defended the Research Area "Investigating Quantum Gravity's Influence on the Universe Transparency"
  • 10. 4. 2024. Completed the course "Selected chapters in astrophysics"
  • 26. 2. 2024. Delivered talk on "Approaches to Universe transparency study in an LIV scenario" for the Seminar in Physics course

Talks

  • 8. 7. 2025. Regular talk contribution "Assessing SWGO Sensitivity to Lorentz Invariance Violation through Transparency Studies". Bridging high and low energies in search of quantum gravity - 2025 Cost Action CA23130 First Annual Conference. Paris, France.
  • 26. 11. 2024. Online contribution "Detectability of Lorentz Invariance Violation effects with SWGO". 2nd HAD Scientific Meeting of the Croatian Astronomical Society. Rijeka, Croatia.
  • 16. 7. 2024. Regular talk contribution "Approaches to photon absorption in a Lorentz invariance violation scenario". Fifth annual conference on quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger era (QGMM24). Madrid, Spain.
  • 20. 2. 2023. Regular talk contribution "Study of Universe Transparency in an LIV Framework". COST Action CA18108 Third Training School and 59. Winter School of Theoretical Physics "Gravity - Classical, Quantum and Phenomenology". Wojanów, Poland.
Schools & Conferences
  • Bridging high and low energies in search of quantum gravity - 2025 Cost Action CA23130 First Annual Conference. Paris, France. (BridgeQG)
  • Searching for Quantum Gravity in the Sky, 2025. Bad Honnef, Germany. (DPG)
  • Fifth annual conference on quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger era (QGMM24), 2024. Madrid, Spain. (QGMM24)
  • MPIK-CDY School on the Future of Gamma-Ray Astronomy, 2024. Heidelberg, Germany. (MPIK-CDY)
  • COST Action CA18108 Fourth Annual Conference, 2023. Rijeka, Croatia. (Indico)
  • COST Action CA18108 Third Training School and 59. Winter School of Theoretical Physics "Gravity - Classical, Quantum and Phenomenology", 2023. Wojanów, Poland. (Indico)
  • COST Action CA18108 Second Training school, 2022. Belgrade, Serbia. (Indico)
  • ICTP Summer School on Particle Physics, 2021. (Indico)
  • Terrascale Summer School, 2020.
Honours & Awards
  • Best scientific paper in the Division of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics for 2024.
  • Erasmus+ Mobility Grant (University of Rijeka, 2023. - 2025.)
  • MOBDOK-2023 Research Visit Grant (Croatian Science Foundation, 2024.)
  • "Prometej" Grant (University of Rijeka Foundation, 2024.)
  • Study Completion Scholarship (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 2021.)
  • "Deutschlandstipendium" Scholarship (Federal Republic of Germany, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, 2019.)
  • Best Bachelor Thesis Award (University of Rijeka, Department of Physics, 2019.)
  • University Bachelor of Physics with Highest Praise - Summa Cum Laude (University of Rijeka, Department of Physics, 2018.)
  • STEM Scholarship (Republic of Croatia, Ministry of Science and Education, 2018.)
  • Scholarship for Excellence (University of Rijeka, 2017.)
Outreach
  • 11. 6. 2025. Croatian Science Foundation PhD Café: "Možemo li izmjeriti kvantnu gravitaciju?" (eng. "Can we measure quantum gravity?"). Rijeka, Croatia.
  • 24. 5. 2023. Pint of Science: "O kvantnoj gravitaciji" (eng. "About quantum gravity"). Rijeka, Croatia
  • 23. 6. 2022. Popularization talk: "Bariogeneza - priča o nastanku čestica" (eng. "Baryogenesis - the story of the origin of particles"). Rijeka, Croatia.

Teaching activities

Info

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Faculty of Physics, University of Rijeka study programmes:

Current (2022./2023. - today)

Undergraduate courses

  • Physics II: electricity and magnetism
  • Mathematical Methods of Physics II

Graduate courses

  • Elementary particle physics I
  • Quantum Field Theory

Past (2020./2021.)

Course: Mathematical Methods for Physicists. Course instructor: Prof. Jan von Delft. Faculty of Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.