Handbook of Quantum Gravity

Cosimo Bambi (Editor-in-Chief)  Cosimo Bambi is Xie Xide Junior Chair Professor at the Department of Physics at Fudan University. He received the Laurea degree from Florence University in 2003 and the PhD degree from Ferrara University in 2007. He was appointed as a postdoctoral researcher at IPMU/The University of Tokyo and at LMU Munich. He joined Fudan University at the end of 2012 under the 1000 Young Talents Program. He has received numerous awards, including the Magnolia Silver Award from the Municipality of Shanghai in 2018 and a JSPS Invitation Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2016.  Professor Bambi has worked on a number of topics in the fields of high-energy astrophysics, particle cosmology, and gravity. He has published over 200 papers on refereed journals and authored/edited several academic books with Springer: "Introduction to Particle Cosmology: The Standard Model of Cosmology and itsOpen Problems" (Springer-Verlag Heidelberg Berlin, 2016), "Astrophysics of Black Holes: From Fundamental Aspects to Latest Developments" (Springer-Verlag Heidelberg Berlin, 2016), "Black Holes: A Laboratory for Testing Strong Gravity" (Springer Singapore, 2017), "Introduction to General Relativity: A Course for Undergraduate Students of Physics" (Springer Singapore, 2018), "Tutorial Guide to X-ray and Gamma-ray Astronomy: Data Reduction and Analysis" (Springer Singapore, 2020), and "Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy" (Springer Singapore, 2022) Leonardo Modesto is Associate Professor at the Department of Physics at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He received the Laurea degree from Pisa University in 2000 and the PhD degree from Turin University in 2004. He was appointed as a postdoctoral researcher at Turin University, at CNRS in Marseille, at Bologna University, and at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He worked as Associate Professor at Fudan University from 2012 to 2016 and moved to SUSTech in 2016. Professor Modesto works on a number of topics in theoretical high-energy physics, ranging from quantum gravity to cosmology and particle physics. Ilya Shapiro is professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and also level 1A fellow of the productivity grant from CNPq (main national agency of supporting science in Brazil). He graduated from high school in the city of Pavlodar in Kazakhstan, USSR and went to study in the Physics Department of the Tomsk State University, Russia. After graduating in 1981 he defended Ph.D. in physical and mathematical sciences in 1985. Between 1984 and 1987 worked as assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics at Tomsk Medical Institute, and from 1987 as accociated professor at Tomsk State Pedagogical Institute (now University). In 1993 got highest degree (Doctor of Science) at Tomsk State University. Between 1994 and 1996 was research visitor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. starting from 1996 was visiting professor at Federal University of Juiz de Fora where became permanent in 2000. From 2015 to 2018 was a member of the CNPq Physics and Astronomy Board and from 2018 is one of responsibles for Quantum Field Theory in the Brazilian Physical Society. Prof. Shapiro supervised and co-supervised a number of theses and dissertations, including 13 Ph.D. theses. He is author and co-author of 170+ articles and of several books, including I.L. Buchbinder et al, "Effective Action In Quantum Gravity", IOPP/1992, with more than 900 citations in the ISI, "Introduction to Classical Mechanics", together with G. de Berredo-Peixoto, Livraria da Física/2011, 2nd edition in 2016 , English translation published in Springer/NY in 2013, "A Primer in Tensor Analysis and Relativity" (Springer/NY, 2019), "Introduction to Quantum Field Theory with Applications to Quantum Gravity", together with I.L. Buchbinder (Oxford Un. Press, 2021).

The background information about perturbative quantum gravity.- On the covariant renormalization in the models of quantum gravity.- The functional renormalization group in quantum gravity.- The vertex expansion.- Nonlocal Gauge Theories including Quantum Gravity.- Nonlocal Quantum Gravity.