  Quantum gravity has become a fertile interface between gravitational physics
and quantum many-body physics, with its double goal of identifying the
microscopic constituents of the universe and their fundamental dynamics, and of
understanding their collective properties and how spacetime and geometry
themselves emerge from them at macroscopic scales. In this brief contribution,
we outline the problem of quantum gravity from this emergent spacetime
perspective, and discuss some examples in which ideas and methods from quantum
many-body systems have found a central role in quantum gravity research.
