Sergei Odintsov

Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (CSIC - ICE)

Experimental Sciences & Mathematics

ICREA Research Professor at ICE (CSIC-IEEC) since 2003. He wrote about 500  journal articles, with more than 30000 citations. Three ms written while in ICREA were cited more than 1000 times, 2 books and 5 articles-more than 500 times. Foreign Member of the Royal Norwegian Academy, member of European Phys. Soc. and Italian Grav. Soc.  Awarded by Amaldi Gold Medal: European Prize for Gravitational Physics 2014. Editorial Board Member of six journals and referee of about 20 journals (with  excellence certificates from PLB, EPL, PRD). Hirsh index h=87 (Google Scholar) and h=81(inspirehep). Supervisor of 12 PhDs. Speaker/lecturer/participant of about 120 conf. and  Org. Comm.member/organizer of about 40 int. workshops. Top Cited Thomson-Reuters Researcher in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Awarded by several short-term JSPS fellowships to conduct research at KMI, Nagoya Univ., Japan.


Research interests

I develop the theory which should describe our universe history. My main purpose is to formulate the consistent alternative to Einstein gravity in order to resolve the fundamental puzzle of modern cosmology: why and how the universe accelerates? In fact, I proposed the first modified gravity which may describe the unification of the early-time inflation (including singular one) and late-time acceleration. We also proposed a bouncing universe in modified gravity as scenario that is alternative to the inflation. The alternative gravity we develop should describe the whole sequence of the universe eras: inflation, radiation-matter dominance and dark energy era with consistent transitions from one era to other era. The study of the current universe should clarify its future: if it will expand eternally or if its evolution will be finished in the finite-time future singularity (actually much before via the disintegration of bound objects).

Selected publications

Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK 2016, ‘Deformed matter bounce with dark energy epoch’, Physical Review D, 94, 6, 064022.

– Nojiri S, Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK 2016, ‘Unimodular-Mimetic Cosmology’, Class. Quant. Grav., v. 33, p.125017.

– Nojiri S,  Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK 2016, ‘Viable mimetic completion of unified inflation-dark energy evolution in modified gravity’, Physical Review D94, 104050.

– Nojiri S, Odintsov SD  & Oikonomou V 2016, ‘Unimodular F(R) gravity’, JCAP, 1605, 046.

– de la Cruz Dombriz A, Elizalde E, Odintsov SD & Saez-Gomez D 2016, ‘Spotting deviations from R2 inflation’, JCAP, 1605, 060.

– Katsuragawa T, Nojiri S, Odintsov SD & Yamazaki M 2016, ‘Relativistic stars in dRGT massive gravity’, Phys. Rev. D 93, 24013.

– Addazi A, Capozziello S & Odintsov SD 2016, ‘Born-Infeld condensate as a possible origin of neutrino masses and dark energy’, Phys. Lett. B 760, 611-616.

– Capozziello S, de Laurentis M, Farinelli R & Odintsov SD 2016, ‘Mass-radius relation for neutron stars in F(R) gravity’, Physical Review D 93, 023501.

Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK 2016, ‘Gauss-Bonnnet gravitational baryogenesis’, Physics Letters B 760, 259-262.

– Bamba K & Odintsov SD 2016, ‘Inflation in a viscous fluid model’, Eur. Phys. J. C 76,18 (1-8).

Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK 2016, ‘Dark Energy Oscillations in Mimetic F(R) gravity’, Physical Review D 94, 044012.

– Brooker DJ, Odintsov SD & Woodard RP 2016, ‘Precision Predictions for the Primordial Power Spectra from F(R) Models of Inflation’, Nucl. Phys. B 911, 318-337.

– Nojiri S, Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK 2016, ‘The bounce universe history from unimodular F(R) gravity’, Phys. Rev. D 93, 084050 (1-14)


Selected research activities

Invited speaker at:

– Int. fields and ext. universe, Hiroshima.
– QFTG2016,Tomsk.
– Siberian Cosm. Days 2016,Tomsk.
– CQV, Benasque.
– SIGRAV conf, Cefalu.
– Beyond Conc.Model,Capetown.
– 2016 Petrov School, Kazan.