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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Career

  • 2024: College Assistant Professor and Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge
  • 2023-2024: Research Associate, Imperial College London
  • 2021-2023: Postdoctoral Researcher, Imperial College London

Research

Quantum gravity, causal set theory, combinatorics, QFT on discrete backgrounds.

Publications

Hopf Algebras from Poset Growth Models
K Yeats, S Zalel
– The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
(2024)
31,
Observables for cyclic causal set cosmologies
F Dowker, S Zalel
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2023)
40,
155015
If time had no beginning: Growth dynamics for past-infinite causal sets
BV Bento, F Dowker, S Zalel
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2022)
39,
045002
The structure of covtree: searching for manifestly covariant causal set dynamics
S Zalel
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2020)
38,
015001
A criterion for covariance in complex sequential growth models
S Surya, S Zalel
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2020)
37,
195030
A manifestly covariant framework for causal set dynamics
F Dowker, N Imambaccus, A Owens, R Sorkin, S Zalel
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2020)
37,
085003

Research Group

Relativity and Gravitation