Awards and Honors
I received my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Viatcheslav Mukhanov, based on two of my single-author papers, and was awarded the degree with highest honors in 2022. For this work, I was also awarded the Arnold Sommerfeld PhD Prize for the best doctoral thesis, and the Springer Thesis Award.
2025 Springer Thesis Award
2024 Arnold Sommerfeld PhD Prize (for the year 2022)
2024 Awarded a fund to Support Female Researchers with Research Skills Training, Japan
2022 Julian S. SCHWINGER Diploma for the Best New Talents
International School of Subnuclear Physics, 58𝑡ℎ Course: Gravity and matter in the subnuclear world
2018 – 2019 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Completion grant
2017 – 2018 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): Master Studies Scholarship
2017 Dean’s Award, University of Split, Croatia
2016 Scholarship of the Croatian Science Foundation (NZPUSS)
Publications
1. Book
A. Hell, The Massless Limit of Massive Gauge Theories: To the strong coupling and beyond.
Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. (30 August, 2025) 10.1007/978-3-032-01090-2
2. Preprints
A. Hell, D. LĂĽst, Aspects of non-minimally coupled curvature with power laws.
[arXiv:2509.20217]
A. De Felice, A. Hell, The non-minimal 3-form cosmology and the rise of the cuscuton.
[arXiv: 2509.02323]
A. Hell, M. Sasaki, Accelerating Universe from Constraints.
[arXiv: 2507.00986]
3. Refereed Journal Articles
A. Hell, D. LĂĽst, Conformal and pure scale-invariant gravities in d dimensions.
JHEP, 2025, 202 (2025). [arXiv:2506.18775]
A. De Felice, A. Hell, On the cosmological degrees of freedom of Proca fields with non-minimal coupling to gravity.
JHEP, 2025, 228 (2025), [arXiv:2503.07454]
A. Hell, Unveiling the inconsistency of the Proca theory with non-minimal coupling to gravity.
PTEP, 2025, 1, (2025), 013E01, [arXiv:2403.18673]
S. Bahamonde, D. Blixt, K. F. Dialektopoulos, A. Hell, Revisiting Stability in New General Relativity.
PRD 111 (2025) 6, 064080, [arXiv:2404.02972]
A. Hell, D. LĂĽst, G. Zoupanos, On the degrees of freedom of đť‘…2 gravity in flat spacetime.
JHEP 02 (2024) 039 [arXiv:2311.08216]
A. Hell, D. LĂĽst, G. Zoupanos, On the ghost problem of conformal gravity.
JHEP 08 (2023) 168 [arXiv:2306.13714]
A. Hell, The strong couplings of massive Yang-Mills theory.
JHEP 03 (2022) 167 [arXiv:2111.00017]
A. Hell, On the duality of massive Kalb-Ramond and Proca fields.
JCAP 01 (2022) no.01, 056 [arXiv:2109.05030]
4. Proceedings
A. Hell, Aspects of massive gauge fields.
Contribution to CORFU2024, The Dark Side of the Universe (DSU2024) [arXiv:2505.08962]