Giovanni Modanese is a professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is a university located in Bolzano, Italy...

, Italy

Italy

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He is the author of several publications in General Relativity

General relativity

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 and Quantum Gravity

Quantum gravity

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He collaborated with Eugene Podkletnov

Eugene Podkletnov

Dr Yevgeny Podkletnov is a Russian engineer, formerly affiliated with the Materials Science Department at the Tampere University of Technology, Finland, who is best known for his controversial work on a so-called gravity shielding device...

, devising a device that reportedly generates a "repulsive" gravity-like beam that is several orders of magnitude stronger than the aforementioned experiments. This work has been published in a peer-reviewed journal but has not yet been confirmed by others.