Professor of Theoretical Physics
Career
- 2007- DAMTP faculty, Fellow of Trinity College
- 2005-2007 Lecturer, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham
- 2005-2013 Royal Society University Research Fellow
- 2003-2005 Postdoc, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara
- 2000-2003 Postdoc, Physics Department, Queen Mary, University of London
- 1997-2000 Ph.D, DAMTP
Research
General relativity.
Research Students
- Aidan McSharry (2025-)
- Maxime Gadioux (2022-)
- Iain Davies (2020-24)
- Filipe Miguel (2019-23)
- Aron Kovacs (2017-21)
- Felicity Eperon (2015-19)
- Giuseppe Papallo (2014-18)
- Gabriel Bernardi de Freitas (2012-16)
- Joseph Keir (2011-2015)
- Mahdi Godazgar (2008-2012)
- Mark Durkee (2007-2011)
- Graeme Candlish (2005-2010)
Publications
Ill-posedness of the Cauchy problem for linearized gravity in a cavity with conformal boundary conditions
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2025)
42,
235003
(doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/ae1b60)
Supersymmetric black holes and the third law of black hole mechanics
– Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2025)
112,
104009
(doi: 10.1103/s44z-rbzx)
On the third law of black hole mechanics for supersymmetric black holes
(2025)
Third law of black hole mechanics for supersymmetric black holes and a quasilocal mass-charge inequality
– Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2024)
110,
124059
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.124059)
A third law of black hole mechanics for supersymmetric black holes and a quasi-local mass-charge inequality
(2024)
Evolution of creases on the event horizon of a black hole merger
– Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2024)
110,
084029
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.110.084029)
Nonperturbative Second Law of Black Hole Mechanics in Effective Field Theory
– Physical Review Letters
(2024)
132,
171402
A non-perturbative second law of black hole mechanics in effective field theory
(2023)
Creases, corners, and caustics: Properties of nonsmooth structures on black hole horizons
– Physical Review D
(2023)
108,
084021
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.084021)
Dynamical Black Hole Entropy in Effective Field Theory
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2023)
2023,
6
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2023)006)
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