Ronnie Rodgers

Ronnie Rodgers

Nordita Assistant Professor

High Energy Physics

About

Ronnie Rodgers received his PhD from the University of Southampton in 2019. He was then a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University for two years. He has been at Nordita since September 2021, beginning as a postdoc. Since the beginning of 2026 his research has been funded by a grant from the Olle Engkvist foundation.

Most of Ronnie's research makes use of the AdS/CFT correspondence, also known as holography, which relates quantum field theory and general relativity. In his work, Ronnie uses holography to model strongly coupled quantum field theories, with a view toward applications in high energy and condensed matter physics. Two of the main themes of Ronnie's research are quantum field theories with defects and the holographic description of quantum entanglement.

"Holomorphic D-brane embeddings in D-brane backgrounds."

Ratcliffe, J.; Rodgers, R.; Ryu, S.. arXiv preprint (2026).

"Entanglement C-functions of defects and interfaces in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory."

Jokela, N.; Kastikainen, J.; Penín, J. M.; Rodgers, R.; Ruotsalainen, H.. arXiv preprint (2025).

"Entanglement Rényi entropies in celestial holography."

Capone, F.; O'Bannon, A.; Rodgers, R.; Thakur, S.. SciPost Physics (2025).

"Light dilaton near critical points in top-down holography."

Elander, D.; Faedo, A. F.; Piai, M.; Rodgers, R.; Subils, J.. Physical Review D (2024).

Holographic entanglement entropy for defects