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Gamma-rays: the magnifying glass to investigate a cosmic dark matter crime

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Michele Doro is an Associate Professor at the University of Padova whose research focuses on dark matter and fundamental physics with very-high-energy gamma rays. His work spans indirect searches for dark matter annihilation or decay, the study of axion-like particles through photon–ALP mixing, and searches for magnetic monopoles and other exotic messengers. He is Principal Investigator of INFN and UNIPD projects and an active member of MAGIC, CTAO, and SWGO collaborations, where he contributes to both scientific analysis and the development of advanced Cherenkov telescope instrumentation. Having authored over 200 publications, he and his group combine phenomenology, data analysis, and hardware innovation to enhance the discovery potential of gamma ray observatories for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

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What's in a name? — The Big Bang and Dark Matter

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Prof. Emilio Elizalde is the founding leader of the “Theoretical Physics and Cosmology” group of the CSIC Institute for Space Science (ICE-CSIC and IEEC), in Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain, a group of high international recognition. He is an Honorary Professor of two universities, has held posts as a visiting scholar at MIT and several other high-level institutions a number of times, as well as having received two “Invitational Fellowships of the Japan Government for Excellent Researchers” and four “Distinctions of Merit” from the National Higher Research Council of Spain. Alongside his membership of the European Science Foundation “College of Expert Reviewers”, and also of the prestigious Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics (BGSMath), he also held the position of Vice-President of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Association of Spain.

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Dark Matter as a QCD Effect in an Anti–de Sitter Background

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Jean-Pierre Gazeau is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Université Paris Cité and Invited Professor at the University of Białystok, Poland. As a leading authority in theoretical and mathematical physics, he has contributed for over five decades to work on coherent states, group representations, quantization, aperiodic systems (quasicrystals), and quantum field theory in curved spacetime. In addition to having authored over 250 publications and several reference monographs, he has held visiting positions at UCLA, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, and the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas. His research and teaching, spanning all continents, reflect a unique combination of mathematical rigor and global scientific engagement.

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Detection of Axion Dark Matter through Resonant Activation in Josephson Junctions

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Prof. Bernardo Spagnolo is a Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Palermo and Co-Director of the International School on “Nonequilibrium Phenomena” at the Ettore Majorana Center, Erice. He serves on the Academic Senate of the Ettore Majorana Foundation, acts as Consultant to the Rector of Palermo University for International Cooperation with Russia (since 2022), and has been a Member of the Presidential Council of the Italian Physical Society (IPS) since 2019, where he also serves as Vice President of the Permanent Teaching Commission. A Fellow of the American Physical Society (since 2017), Prof. Spagnolo leads the Research Laboratory of “Stochastic Multistable Systems” at Lobachevsky University, Nizhny Novgorod, where he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Dr. h.c.) in 2025. He has published over 230 papers in leading journals including Physics Reports, Physical Review Letters, and Scientific Reports, and contributed to multiple book chapters and special issues. His research focuses on nonequilibrium statistical physics, particularly noise-induced phenomena, metastable dynamics, and complex systems. Prof. Spagnolo has held visiting professorships at institutions such as Lobachevsky University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Humboldt University of Berlin, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, and Jagiellonian University. He is the Chair of the 111th National Congress of the Italian Physical Society (2025), Founding Editor-in-Chief of Nonequilibrium Physics, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Chaos, Solitons & Fractals and Entropy. He is currently ranked 28th among the Top Italian Scientists in Physics.