Mr Hiro Funakoshi

Career

• 2009-present: PhD student, University of Cambridge
• 2005-2009: BA and Part III in Mathematics, University of Cambridge

Research

Hiro is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and is in the Relativity & Gravitation research group. His current interests are on early universe cosmology.

Previous research revolved around work on the stochastic formalism to model quantum fluctuations during inflation (the approach called "stochastic inflation").

Selected Publications

• Primordial bispectrum from inflation with background gauge fields - H.F. & Kei Yamamoto (arXiv: 1212.2615)
• A Modal Approach to the Numerical Calculation of Primordial non-Gaussianities - H.F. & Sebastien Renaux-Petel (arXiv: 1211.3086)