Sergei Odintsov

Sergei Odintsov

Institut de Ciències de l'Espai

Experimental Sciences & Mathematics

ICREA Research Professor at ICE (CSIC-IEEC) since 2003. Author of about 600  journal articles, with about 45000 citations. Two ms were cited more than 2000 times,  while three  ms and two books - more than 1000 times. Foreign Member of the Royal Norwegian Academy, member of Eur. Phys. Soc., Italian Grav. Soc.  Awarded by Amaldi Gold Medal: European Prize for Grav. Physics 2014. Editorial Board Member of six journals and referee of about 20 journals (with  dozen excellence certificates). Hirsh index h=106(Google S.), h=98(inspirehep;Mendeley), h=90(Scopus). Supervisor of 12 PhDs. Speaker/lecturer of  120 conf. and  organizer of 40 int. workshops. Top Cited Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate Analytics  Researcher in 2014-2018. Web.of Science 2017 Award. TSPU Silver Medal (2017). Honorary Professorship: TSPU(2019), Tomsk; TUSUR(2020),Tomsk.


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, i.e.consistent universe history evolution. 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 current universe  clarifies its future: if it will expand eternally or if its evolution will be finished in the future singularity.

Selected publications

- S.D.Odintsov, V.K.Oikonomou & F.P.Fronimos, 'F(R)-gravity k-essence late-time phenomenology', Phys. Dark Univ.29(2020) p.100563.

- A.V.Astashenok, S.Capozziello, S.D.Odintsov & V.K.Oikonomou, 'Extended Gravity Description for the GW190814 Supermassive Neutron Star', Phys.Lett.B811(2020) p.135910.

- S.D.Odintsov & V.K.Oikonomou, 'Constant-roll k-inflation dynamics', Class.Quant.Grav. 37(2020) p.025003.    

- E.Elizalde, S.D.Odintsov & T.Paul, 'Viable non-singular cosmic bounce in holonomy improved F(R) gravity endowed with a Lagrange multiplier', Eur.Phys.J.C 80(2020) p.10.

- S.D.Odintsov, D.Saez-Chillon Gomez & G.Sharov, 'Testing the equation of state for viscous dark energy', Phys.Rev.D101(2020) p.044010.

- S.D.Odintsov & V.K.Oikonomou, 'Inflationary attractors in F(R) gravity', Phys.Lett. B807(2020) p.135576.    

- S.D.Odintsov & V.K.Oikonomou, 'Geometric inflation and dark energy in axion F(R) gravity', Phys.Rev. D101(2020) p.044009.

- A.V.Astashenok & S.D.Odintsov, 'Supermassive neutron stars in axion F(R) gravity', MNRAS 493(2020) p.78-86.

- S.Nojiri & S.D.Odintsov, 'The dark universe future and singularities: The account of thermal and quantum effects', Phys.Dark Universe 30(2020) p.100695.

- S.D.Odintsov, V.K.Oikonomou & F.P.Fronimos, 'Rectifying Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet inflation in view of GW170817', Nucl.Phys.B958(2020) p.115135    

- S.Nojiri, S.D.Odintsov & V.K.Oikonomou, 'Ghost-free non-local F(R) gravity cosmology', Phys.Dark Universe 28(2020) p.100541.  

- S.D. Odintsov & V.K.Oikonomou,  'Swampland implications of GW170817-compatible Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity', Phys.Lett. B805(2020) p.135437.  

- A.V.Astashenok & S.D.Odintsov, 'Rotating neutron stars in F(R) gravity with axions', MNRAS 498 (2020) p.3616.

- S.D.Odintsov, V.K.Oikonomou & T.Paul, 'From a bounce to the dark energy era with F(R) gravity', Class.Quant.Grav. 37 (2020) p.235005.


Selected research activities

Chairman of OrgCom/speaker: VI Cosmology & the Quant. Vacuum conf, Barcelona, Mar 2020