Office: Room 0218, Physics Building, Siwangting Road No. 180, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province,

China

E-mail: mahdisg@yzu.edu.cn

Research Interest:

(1) Gauge/Gravity duality, AdS/CFT and its generalizations and applications

(2) Holographic complexity and tensor network

Education:

(1) 2011-2016: University of Michigan, Ph.D.

(2) 2006-2011: Sharif University of Technology, B.Sc.

Top Selected Publications:

1. Mahdis Ghodrati, “Complexity growth in massive gravity theories, the effects of chirality,

and more”, Phys.Rev. D96 (2017) no.10, 106020, arXiv:1708.07981.

2. Mahdis Ghodrati , Ali Naseh, “Phase transitions in Bergshoeff-Hohm-Townsend massive

gravity”, Class.Quant.Grav. 34 (2017) no.7, 075009, arXiv:1601.04403.

3. Mahdis Ghodrati , “Schwinger Effect and Entanglement Entropy in Confining Geometries”,

Phys.Rev. D92 (2015) no.6, 065015, arXiv:1506.08557.

4. Mahdis Ghodrati, “Complexity growth rate during phase transitions”, arXiv:1808.08164.

5. Mahdis Ghodrati, “Hyperscaling Violating Solution in Coupled Dilaton-Squared Curvature

Gravity”, Phys. Rev. D90 (2014) no.4, 044055, arXiv:1404.5399.

6. M. Ghodrati, K. Hajian, M. R. Setare, “Revisiting Conserved Charges in Higher Curvature

Gravitational Theories”, Eur.Phys.J. C76 (2016) no.12, 701, arXiv:1606.04353 .