Andrea Gravitinus Ferrantelli

I was born in 1977 in Turin (Torino), northern Italy, where I lived until 2005 (with a short Erasmus parenthesis in Bergen, Norway), before moving to Helsinki. I am a theoretical physicist and I am enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Astroparticle Physics at the University of Helsinki.
I actually work on the phenomenology of gravitino dark matter, and on Supergravity theories with cosmological inflation as a background.
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I began to play the guitar in September 1994. Through the years, I took part to several bands, ranging from Black Metal to Thrash, Death, Heavy Metal and Rock. I never had the time to attend music lessons, nor the attitude and the constance which are necessary to be a serious student. However, I try to learn something new every single day...and improving is a never ending process!
In Helsinki, I was the guitarist of the band ThE PhysicistS until March 2008. All the songs in my player (with the only exception of "Mary PoMpins", which is a duet with Hadron Dream), are from their second demo "The Old Religion".
I feel very lucky to carry on collaborations with a number of talented persons, both in Finland and in Italy, who are listed in the section "Band members".
And I am still looking for new projects to come!
I have the formation of a metalhead, but I think that it is essential to listen to several other genres of music, from classical to jazz, metal, funk...in order to contaminate a background genre with suitable "external" elements. I believe that music is a whole entity, and that restrictions can strongly limit creativity.
My dream would be to play some jazz fusion with a metal kick.