Personal website: https://samuelpatrone.com
Ph.D. in Physics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA, 2020-2026. Carried out at the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics under the supervision of Prof. Mark B. Wise. Thesis: "Tracing New Physics: From Symmetry to Observation", defended on 27 May 2026.
Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, San Diego, from September 2026.
Member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, co-author of ten papers.
Human Frontier Collective Specialist at Scale AI, since 2025: designing and validating problems in theoretical physics, from graduate level to frontier research, for the training of large language models.
Certificate of Practice in University Teaching, 2026, awarded by the Caltech Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach and the Caltech Future Faculty and Mentors programme.
Physics & Astronomy TA Fellow at Caltech, supporting 122 teaching assistants and graders across 231 term-based assignments. More than five years of university teaching, from classical mechanics to relativistic quantum field theory.
Particle physics phenomenology and cosmology: building models beyond the Standard Model and turning them into predictions that experiments can test.
Long-lived axionlike particles: production in electromagnetic cascades and detection prospects at the SHiP (CERN) and BDX (JLab) beam dump experiments.
Leptogenesis in automatic Nelson-Barr models: solving the strong CP problem and generating the observed baryon asymmetry at once, with predictions within reach
of nucleon electric dipole moment experiments.
Quark-lepton unification and finite naturalness in Pati-Salam models: radiative corrections to the Higgs boson mass and bounds on the vector leptoquark mass.
Large-scale structure of the universe: one-loop renormalization of the galaxy bias expansion in the presence of primordial local non-Gaussianity.
Gravitational waves: searches for transient and continuous signals in LIGO and Virgo data, within the collaborations.
Full and up-to-date list: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1878725
Selected papers:
S. Patrone, N. Blinov, R. Plestid, "Long-lived axionlike particles from electromagnetic cascades", Phys. Rev. D 113, 075009 (2026).
C. Murgui, S. Patrone, "Leptogenesis in automatic Nelson-Barr models", JHEP 09 (2025) 113.
P. Fileviez Pérez, C. Murgui, S. Patrone, A. Testa, M. B. Wise, "Finite naturalness and quark-lepton unification", Phys. Rev. D 109, 015011 (2024).
S. Patrone, A. Testa, M. B. Wise, "Regularization scheme dependence of the counterterms in the galaxy bias expansion", JCAP 11 (2023) 087.
In addition, ten papers as a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration.
Doctoral thesis: "Tracing New Physics: From Symmetry to Observation", Caltech (2026).
