Julio Parra-Martinez
Permanent professor (CV)
IHES
35 Route de Chartres,
91440, Bures-sur-Yvette,
France
Office: 0N5
Contact: julio (at) ihes.fr
Permanent professor (CV)
IHES
35 Route de Chartres,
91440, Bures-sur-Yvette,
France
Office: 0N5
Contact: julio (at) ihes.fr
Research
I am a theoretical physicist working on quantum field theory, scattering amplitudes, gravitation, effective field theories and string theory.
Upcoming seminars, talks, lectures, etc
11/2026: DESY/UHH String Theory Seminar, DESY, Hamburg
11/2026: Nuclear & Particle Theory Seminar, MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, MA
11/2026: Theorie, Univers et Gravitation, ENS, Lyon
11/2026: Joint Columbia U./NYU Theory Seminar, Columbia University / NYU, New York, NY
12/2026: QCD Meets Gravity 2026, Humboldt University, Berlin
01/2027: HEP-Seminar, TUM, Munich
02/2027: CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings and Gauge Theory 2027, CERN, Geneva
02/2027: Colloquium, EPFL, Lausanne
06/2027: All roads lead to Waveforms: GSF, PM, PN and all that, ICTP-SAIFR, Sao Paulo
08/2027: Bridging Strings, Fields, and Gravity, University of Geneva, Ascona
Recent publications (see all)
Analytical time-domain waveforms for black-hole scattering in the post-Minkowskian expansion
Analytical time-domain waveforms for black-hole scattering in the self-force expansion
The school on gravity: from motion to commotion
Quantum love numbers are non-zero
Gravitational Raman scattering: a systematic toolkit for tidal effects in general relativity
Scattering perspective on gravitational lensing
Naturalness of vanishing black-hole tides
Generalized unitarity method for worldline field theory
GSO defects: IIA/IIB walls and the surprisingly stable R7-brane
Nonlinear gravitational memory in the post-Minkowskian expansion
Recent conference talks (see all)
09/2026: Pro(v/b)ing the Swampland, IFT, Madrid
08/2026: 2026 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS), Beijing
07/2026: New Frontiers in Strong Gravity, Benasque Science Center, Benasque
06/2026: Symmetries 2026, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris
06/2026: Lichnerowicz Conference: Journées Relativistes, Institut Denis Poisson, Tours
03/2026: Open Issues in Gravitation, IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette
(video)
01/2026: Lost in Translation, The Language of gravitational waves, MITP, Mainz
01/2026: From Analyticity to Phenomenology, IAS/PCTS, Princeton
12/2025: Symbology@15, MPI for Physics, Munich
12/2025: Observables in gauge theories and gravity, IPhT/CEA, Paris
Recent seminars, colloquia, etc (see all)
09/2026: GWSky Online Seminar Series, Online
09/2026: Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI), Potsdam
07/2026: Physics seminar, Fudan University, Shanghai
05/2026: Joint Belgian hep-th Seminars, ULB, Brussels
04/2026: High-energy theory seminar, KAIST, Daejeon
04/2026: Physics seminar, Korea Institute for Advance Study (KIAS), Seoul
02/2026: TH Colloquium, CERN, Geneva
01/2026: Seed Seminar of Mathematics and Physics, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris
12/2025: Fields and Strings Seminar, MPI for Physics, Munich
11/2025: Seminar, Crete Center for Theoretical Physics, Crete
Recent lectures
08/2026: Fudan Particle Physics Summer School 2026, Fudan University, Shanghai
06/2026: School on Gravity, NBI, Copenhagen
01/2026: Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology, IISER, Bhopal
10/2025: School of Analytic Computing in Theoretical High-Energy Physics, Atrani, Italy
07/2025: HoloGrav Young Frontiers Meeting 2025, ICPT-SAIFR, Sao Paulo
(video)
06/2025: Amplitudes Summer School, KIAS, Seoul
(video)
04/2021: Gravitational scattering, inspiral, and radiation, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence
(video)
My collaborators
Stefano De Angelis, Vincent F. He, Chris Kavanagh, Davide Usseglio, Vitor Cardoso, Jose María Ezquiaga, Laura Sberna, Gustavo J. Turiaci, Lieke van Son, Asaad Elkhidir, more…
Updated: 15/10/2026