Low dimensional systems (including superconductors), with emphasis on understanding strong correlations, and in exploiting the similarities of the underlying quantum field theory to elementary particle physics; models for (stringy) quantum gravity, in which the gravitational interactions behave like a stochastic medium; consequences for matter propagation in the context of current and future experimental facilities, both terrestrial and astrophysical; development and study of world-sheet logarithmic conformal field theories, with a wide range of applicability (from models in condensed matter physics to a discussion of recoil of solitonic backgrounds in string theory); Astroparticle phenomenology of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, exotic non-equilibrium Cosmological models, including stringy cosmologies. Supersymmetry Breaking in context of Particle Physics and in low-dimensional Gauge Theories (possibly of relevance to exotic quantum phases in condensed matter).

Cosmology; astro-particle physics, exotic quantum phases; theoretical particle physics, including string theory.