Sergey Odintsov

Sergey Odintsov

Institut de Ciències de l'Espai

Experimental Sciences & Mathematics

ICREA Research Professor at ICE (CSIC-IEEC) since 2003. Author of about 770 articles cited over 73000 times. Four ms were cited more than 3000 times, while 2 ms-more than 2000 times, 7 ms and two books - more than 1000 times each. Foreign Member of the Royal Norwegian Academy and of Serbian Academy of Nonlinear Sciences, member of Eur. Phys. Soc. and Italian Grav. Soc. Awarded by Amaldi Gold Medal: European Prize for Grav. Physics 2014. Editorial Board Member of six journals. Editor-in-Chief of journal Symmetry and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Astrophysics.Referee of about 20 journals (with dozen excellence certificates). Hirsh index h=132(Google S.), h=123(inspirehep), h=115(Scopus). Supervisor of 14 PhDs. Speaker/lecturer of about 130  and organizer of 46 int. workshops. Top Cited Clarivate Analytics Researcher in 2014-2018, 2023. Honorary professor of several universities. According to research.com ranked 410 in the world ranking of best scientists in the field of Physics.

Research interests

I develop the theory which should describe our universe evolution as a whole. My main purpose is  to resolve the fundamental puzzle of modern cosmology: why and how the universe accelerates? What is Dark Energy and Inflation? In fact, I proposed the first modified gravity which may describe the consistent universe history. In relation with modified gravity we suggested new generalised entropy which gives all known entropies as particular examples.  The alternative gravity which we develop should describe the whole sequence of the universe eras: inflation, radiation-matter dominance and dark energy era in a unified way. Currently, I proposed/developed several realistic modified gravities which unify the inflation consistent with Planck and ACT data with dynamical dark energy which passes latest bounds including DESI. Our study of current universe will clarify its future: if it will expand eternally or if its evolution will be finished in the future singularity.

Selected publications

- Odintsov SD 2025, 'Modified gravity: the game of theories?', Russian physics journal.
- Nojiri S & Odintsov SD 2025, 'Non-metricity approach to Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity', Physics letters b, 863 -139372.
- Odintsov SD, Gómez DSC & Sharov GS 2025, 'Modified gravity/dynamical dark energy vs ΛCDM: is the game over?', European physical journal c, 85 - 3 - 298.
- Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK 2025, 'A power-law inflation tail for the standard R2-inflation and the Trans-Planckian censorship conjecture', Physics letters b, 865 - 139458.
- Nojiri S & Odintsov SD 2025, 'Analogue of Chern-Simons invariant in non-metricity gravity and axion cosmology', Physics of the dark universe, 49 - 102001.
- Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK 2025, 'GW170817 Viable Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet inflation compatible with the atacama cosmology telescope data', Physics letters b, 868 -139779.
- Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK 2025, 'Confronting rainbow-deformed f(R) gravity with the ACT data', Physics letters b, 869 -139909.
- Odintsov SD & Oikonomou VK 2025, 'Power-law F(R) gravity as deformations to Starobinsky inflation in view of ACT', Physics letters b, 869 - 139907.
- Odintsov SD & Paul T 2025, 'ACT inflation and its influence on reheating era in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity', Physics letters b, 870 - 139930.

Selected research activities

Chairman and inv.speaker of Int conf. Symmetry 2025, May, China; Organiser and inv.speaker of int.conf. Quantum Vacuum and Cosmology , Benasque, Sept.2025;
Inv.speaker of int.conf. Quantum Universe, Avellino, Oct. 2025 and of The modern physics of compact stars, Erevan, Sept.2025.