Maitá Micol is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mathematics, King’s College London. She obtained a BA in Natural Sciences from the University of São Paulo in 2023 and a joint MSc in Theoretical Physics from Perimeter Institute and the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the São Paulo State University in 2025.

Research interests

• Asymptotic symmetries

• Celestial holography

• Signatures of quantum gravity in memory effects

Thesis title and abstract

Null quantization and charge algebras in AdS

This project aims at identifying the counterparts of the w-infinity charge algebra generators in (3+1)-dimensional Anti de Sitter spacetimes.

PhD supervision

First supervisor: Dr Ana-Maria Raclariu

Second supervisor: Dr Eleni Alexandra Kontou

Third supervisor: Prof Dionysios Anninos