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Team grant "Gauge gravity: unification, extensions and phenomenology" (2019−2023) PRG356 T. Koivisto, M. Hohmann, L. Järv.
Center of Excellence "Dark Side of the Universe" (2016-2022) TK133 M. Hohmann, S. Bahamonde, S. Groote, L. Järv, T. Koivisto, P. Kuusk, C. Pfeifer, M. Krššák, M. Saal, J. Gigante Valcárcel, A. Wojnar.
Postdoc grant "Energy conditions and singularities in the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity" (2019−2020) MOBJD423 S. Bahamonde.
Postdoc grant "New insights and prospects for observing the dynamical effects of a space-time torsion in strongly magnetized neutron stars and black holes" (2020-2021) MOBJD541 J. Gigante Valcárcel.
Postdoc grant "Constraining modified theories of gravity with gravitational wave data and black-hole perturbation theory" (2020-2022) MOBJD647 J. L. de Figueiredo Rosa.

COST network "Cosmology and Astrophysics Network for Theoretical Advances and Training Actions" (CANTATA) M. Hohmann, S. Bahamonde, M. Krššák.
COST network "Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach" (CA18108), C. Pfeifer, M. Hohmann, L. Järv.

Selected publications

L. Järv, P. Kuusk, M. Saal, O. Vilson, "Invariant quantities in the scalar-tensor theories of gravitation", Phys. Rev. D 91 (2015) 024041 [at inSPIRE].
M. Hohmann, "Parametrized post-Newtonian limit of Horndeski’s gravity theory", Phys. Rev. D 92 (2015) 064019 [at inSPIRE].
L. Järv, K. Kannike, L. Marzola, A. Racioppi, M. Raidal, M. Rünkla, M. Saal, H. Veermäe, "Frame-Independent Classification of Single-Field Inflationary Models", Phys. Rev. Lett. 118 (2017) 151302 [at inSPIRE].
M. Hohmann, L. Järv, U. Ualikhanova, "Covariant formulation of scalar-torsion gravity", Phys. Rev. D 97 (2018) 104011 [at inSPIRE].
L. Järv, M. Rünkla, M. Saal, O. Vilson, "Nonmetricity formulation of general relativity and its scalar-tensor extension", Phys. Rev. D 97 (2018) 124025 [at inSPIRE].
V. Palge, J. Dunningham, S. Groote, H. Liivat, "Relativistic entanglement of two particles driven by continuous product momenta" Phys. Rev. A 98 (2018) 052322 [at inSPIRE].
S. Groote, J. Körner, "Coordinate space calculation of two- and three-loop sunrise-type diagrams, elliptic functions and truncated Bessel integral identities", Nucl. Phys. B 938 (2019) 416 [at inSPIRE].
J. Beltrán Jiménez, L. Heisenberg, T. Koivisto, S. Pekar, "Cosmology in f(Q) geometry", Phys. Rev. D 101 (2020) 103507 [at inSPIRE].

Almost all of our recent papers are listed at the inSPIRE database.

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	Laur Järv head of the laboratory senior research fellow in theoretical physics E-mail: laur.jarv [ät] ut.ee Phone: +372 53416324 Office: B308 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE, Google Scholar, Publons Teaching: TÜ ÕIS Supervision: UT DSpace
	Stefan Groote senior research fellow in theoretical physics E-mail: stefan.groote [ät] ut.ee Phone: +372 737 5573 Office: B319 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE, Google Scholar, Publons Teaching: TÜ ÕIS Supervision: UT DSpace Links: Personal homepage
	Manuel Hohmann senior research fellow in theoretical physics E-mail: manuel.hohmann [ät] ut.ee Phone: +372 737 4749 Office: B320 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE Teaching: TÜ ÕIS Links: Personal homepage
	Tomi Sebastian Koivisto senior research fellow in theoretical physics E-mail: tomi.koivisto [ät] ut.ee Phone: +372 737 4749 Office: B315 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE, Google Scholar, Scopus Teaching: TÜ ÕIS
	Piret Kuusk senior research fellow in theoretical physics E-mail: piret.kuusk [ät] ut.ee Phone: +372 737 4621 Office: B318 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE Teaching: TÜ ÕIS Supervision: UT DSpace
	Margus Saal senior research fellow in theoretical physics E-mail: margus.saal [ät] ut.ee Phone: +372 5094875 Office: B307 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE Teaching: TÜ ÕIS Supervision: UT DSpace
	Sebastián Alejandro Bahamonde Beltrán research fellow in theoretical physics E-mail: sbahamonde [ät] ut.ee Office: B312 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE, Google Scholar Links: Personal homepage
	João Luís de Figueiredo Rosa research fellow in theoretical physics E-mail: joao.luis.de.figueiredo.rosa [ät] ut.ee Office: B314 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE, Google Scholar
	Jorge Gigante Valcárcel research fellow in theoretical physics E-mail: jorge.gigante.valcarcel [ät] ut.ee Office: B312 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE
	Veiko Palge research fellow in theoretical physics E-mail: veiko.palge [ät] ut.ee Phone: +372 737 4761 Office: B308 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: Google Scholar Teaching: TÜ ÕIS
	Christian Pfeifer research fellow in theoretical physics E-mail: christian.pfeifer [ät] ut.ee Office: B314 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE, Google Scholar, Publons Teaching: TÜ ÕIS
	Aneta Magdalena Wojnar research fellow in theoretical physics E-mail: aneta.magdalena.wojnar [ät] ut.ee Office: B314 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE, Google Scholar
	Daniel Kristoffer Blixt PhD student in physics Office: B302 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE Teaching: TÜ ÕIS Links: Personal homepage
	Ernest Michael Priidik Gallagher PhD student in physics Office: B321 Publications: inSPIRE
	Maria Naeem PhD student in physics Office: B312 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE
	Konstantinos Pallikaris PhD student in physics Office: B302 Publications: inSPIRE
	Ulbossyn Ualikhanova PhD student in physics Office: B302 CV, projects: ETIS Publications: inSPIRE
	Luxi Zheng PhD student in physics Office: B321
	Helen Asuküla MSc student in physics Office: B312

Recent visitors

Pavel Fadeev (Mainz) 2020
Teodor Borislavov Vasilev (Madrid) 2020
Nicoleta Voicu (Brasov) 2020, 2018 CANTATA short term scientific mission
Vladimir Mostepanenko (St. Petersburg) 2020
Galina Klimchitskaya (St Petersburg) 2020
Alejandro Jiménez Cano (Granada) 2019
Alexey Golovnev (Cairo) 2019
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Kai Flathmann (Oldenburg) 2019 DoRa+ scholarship
Aleksander Kozak (Wroclaw) 2019
Sergey Vernov (Moscow) 2019
Elena Emtsova (Moscow) 2019 DoRa+ scholarship
Orville Damaschke (Oldenburg) 2018
Kevin Croker (Hawaiʻi) 2015-2016 Fulbright U.S. Student Program
Alexey Toporensky (Moscow) 2015

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Hannes Liivat
Martti Raidal
Peeter Tenjes
Rein Saar
Ene Ergma
Elmar Vesman
Ilmar Ots
Risto Tammelo
Jaak Lõhmus
Laur Palgi
Paavo Helde
Hannes Uibo
Kaupo Palo
Madis Kõiv
Vladimir Rosenhaus
Rein Männik
Peeter Müürsepp

Historical note

The predecessor of the laboratory was the theoretical physics research group in the Institute of Physics, Mathematics and Mechanics, founded in 1947 under the Estonian Academy of Sciences. In the 1960s the expanding group was called the Sector of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, then in the Institute of Physics and Astronomy. The Laboratory of Theoretical Physics exists since 1986, in the Institute of Physics, which continued to belong to the Estonian Academy of Sciences until 1997 when it was subsumed into the University of Tartu.

In 2015 a part of the Laboratory/Chair of Field Theory (formerly Chair of Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Tartu) was joined with Laboratory of Theoretical Physics.

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