Our Mission
We are an independent research association. We promote and facilitate quality research in Quantum Gravity, Quantum Information, Quantum Foundations and related fields, focusing on the conceptual challenges and the fundamental questions arising.
Latest News, Projects & Opportunities
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Opportunities
EFF - Second call for Applications
Applications for the second cohort of the Enrico Fermi Fellowships are now open.
Fondazione Antonio Madonna Scholarship
Applications are open for the Fondazione Antonio Madonna ETS Scholarship for Researchers in the Fundamental Physics of the Universe.
EFF - First call for Applications
Applications for the first cohort of the Enrico Fermi Fellowships are now open.
Projects
Enrico Fermi Fellowships
Sep 2024 – May 2029The Enrico Fermi Fellowships are designed for exceptional graduate students worldwide who aim to fund parts or all of their Ph.D. to enrich their graduate experience by pursuing research across the theory/experiment divide.
QISS - Second Phase
Sep 2022 – May 2025The John Templeton Foundation has renewed its confidence in The Center for SpaceTime and the Quantum, funding the second phase of the Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime (QISS2) grant.
QISS - Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime
Jan 2019 – Aug 2022The John Templeton Foundation funds CSTQ to launch the project The Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime (QISS). QISS is an interdisciplinary initiative in Quantum Information & Quantum Gravity bringing together theorists, experimentalists, and philosophers to unravel the Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime.
Agency in time-reversal symmetric microphysics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021CSTQ has been awarded a Zenith Grant from the Foundational Questions Institute to explore Agency in time-reversal symmetric microphysics.
News
Blaumann’s LQG School in Les Houches
Apr 1, 2025The CSTQ supports Blaumann’s Loop Quantum Gravity School in Les Houches in September 2025
Les Olympiades de Physique France
Aug 3, 2024CSTQ support the Société Française de Physique in organizing the final round of the prestigious Les Olympiades de Physique France.
The CSTQ supports LOOPS24
Dec 23, 2023The CSTQ sponsors the LOOPS24 International Conference in Quantum Gravity.
The Center changes its name
Mar 27, 2023The center's name drops "Samy Maroun" to become "Center for SpaceTime and the Quantum", a.k.a. CSTQ.
Anton Zeilinger, member of our Scientific Advisory Committee has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Anton Zeilinger joins the CSTQ
Sep 1, 2021Professor Anton Zeilinger becomes a member of the CSTQ's Scientific Advisory Committee.
Roger Penrose, member of our Scientific Advisory Committee has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The CSTQ is born!
Aug 21, 2014The Center was founded in 2014 by Carlo Rovelli under the name "Centre Samy Maroun pour la Recherche sur l’Espace, les Temps et la Physique Quantique.”
The People
Members are mainly academics around the world who share the Center's mission. Several institutions are connected to the Center.
The Structure
The Center has a simple organizational and administrative structure.
Carlo Rovelli
President
Tommaso De Lorenzo
Center Executive
Pietro Dona
Managing Committee
Lucas Hackl
Executive Committee
Francesca Vidotto
Treasurer
Christine Vodovar
Project Manager
Aurelien Barrau
Scientific Advisory Committee
Roger Penrose
Scientific Advisory Committee
Lee Smolin
Scientific Advisory Committee
Anton Zeilinger
Scientific Advisory Committee
Caslav Brukner
Scientific Governance Committee
Marios Christodoulou
Scientific Governance Committee
Bob Coecke
Scientific Governance Committee
Pablo Arrighi
Board
Eugenio Bianchi
Board
Simone Speziale
Board
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CSTQ membership comes with no obligations nor benefits. We hold an annual virtual meeting where we share the Center's progress, status and vision.