Badis Ydri

Badis Ydri, cur-rently a pro-fes-sor of the-o-ret-i-cal par-ti-cle physics, teach-ing at the In-sti-tute of Physics, Badji Mokhtar Annaba Uni-ver-sity, Al-ge-ria, received his PhD from Syra-cuse Uni-ver-sity, New York, USA and in 2011 his Ha-bil-i-ta-tion from Annaba Uni-ver-sity, Annaba, Al-ge-ria. Pro-fes-sor Ydri is also a re-search as-so-ci-ate at the Dublin In-sti-tute for Advanced Stud-ies, Dublin, Ire-land, and a reg-u-lar ICTP as-so-ci-ate at the Abdus Salam Cen-ter for The-o-ret-i-cal Physics, Tri-este, Italy. His post-doc-toral ex-pe-ri-ence com-prises a Marie Curie fel-low-ship at Hum-boldt Uni-ver-sity Berlin, Ger-many, and a Hamil-ton fel-low-ship at the Dublin In-sti-tute for Ad-vanced Stud-ies, Ire-land. His cur-rent re-search di-rec-tions include: the gauge/grav-ity du-al-ity; the renor-mal-iza-tion group method in ma-trix and non-com-mu-ta-tive field the-o-ries; non-com-mu-ta-tive and ma-trix field the-ory; quan-tum grav-ity as emer-gent geom-e-try, emer-gent grav-ity and emer-gent cos-mol-ogy from ma-trix mod-els.