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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 650 articles cited over 50000 times. Two ms were cited more than 2500 times,  while five 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=110(Google S.), h=100(inspirehep), h=91(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), Medal of Tomsk regional gov-t (2019). Honorary Professorship: TSPU(2019), Tomsk; TUSUR(2020),Tomsk.


Research interests

I develop the theory which should describe our universe evolution. My main purpose is to formulate the realistic 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 and late-time acceleration, i.e.consistent universe history. 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. We also continue the search for exotic intermediate eras like pre-inflationary or exotic reheating 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

– Bahamonde S, Marciu M, Odintsov SD & Rudra P 2021, ‘String-inspired Teleparallel cosmology‘, Nucl.Phys. B 962, p.115238.

Odintsov SD, Oikonomou VK & Fronimos FP, ‘Canonical scalar field inflation with string and R2-corrections’, Annals Phys.424 (2021) p.168359

– Nojiri S, Odintsov SD & Faraoni V 2021, ‘Area-law versus Renyi and Tsallis black hole entropies‘, Phys.Rev.D104, p.084030.

– Astashenok AV , Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK, ‘Dark Energy and Cosmological Horizon Thermal Effects’, Phys.Rev.D103(2021) p.043514.

– Nojiri S, Odintsov SD & Faraoni V, ‘Searching for dynamical black holes in various theories of gravity’, Phys.Rev.D103(2021) p.104042.

Odintsov SD, Oikonomou VK & Fronimos FP, ‘Late-time cosmology of scalar-coupled F(R,G) gravity’, Class.Quant.Grav. 38(2021) p.075009.

Odintsov SD, Saez-Chillon Gomez D & Sharov GS, ‘Analyzing the H0 tension in F(R) gravity’, Nucl.Phys.B966(2021) p.115377.

‘Odintsov SD & Oikonomou V 2021, ‘R2 inflation revisited and dark energy corrections‘, Phys.Rev.D 104,p.124065

– Astashenok AV, Capozziello S, Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK 2021, ‘Causal limit of neutron star maximum mass in F(R) gravity in view of GW190814‘, Phy.Lett.B 816, p.136222.

Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK, ‘Neutron stars phenomenology with scalar-tensor inflationary attractors‘, Phys.Dark.Univ.32 (2021) p.100805.

– Addazi A, Capozziello S & Odintsov SD, ‘Chaotic Solutions and Black Hole Shadow in f(R) gravity’, Phys.Lett. B816(2021) p.136257.

– Bamba K, Elizalde E, Odintsov SD & Tanmoy  P 2021, ‘Inflationary magnetogenesis with reheating phase from higher curvature coupling’, J Cosmol. Astropart. P., 4, 009.

– Nashed G, Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK, ‘Anisotropic compact stars in higher-order curvature gravity‘, EPJC 81(2021) p.528.


Selected research activities

Online invited talks:

– 27 APS conf., Hyderabad, 26-28 Oct.
– II non-linearity conf. Belgrad, 19-21 Oct.
– 37 TPS conf. Bodrum, 1-4 Sept.
– Vice-chair of int. conf.Symmetry 2020 (Israel, Aug.)
– Chair of  int.conf.  Recent Adv.Theor. Cosmology (Barcelona, Dec.)

ICREA Memoir 2021