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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Career

2016 - 2020: MSci in Mathematics, University College London (UCL)

2020 - present : PhD in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

Supervisors: Professor Ulrich Sperhake and Dr Michalis Agathos

Research

Tamara is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Her research includes modified theories of gravity, numerical relativity and gravitational waves. She is a member of LIGO-Virgo collaboration and an avid user of numerical relativtiy code GRChombo.

My personal webpage can be found here.

Publications

Boson stars in massless and massive scalar-tensor gravity
T Evstafyeva, R Roşca-Mead, U Sperhake, B Brügmann
– Physical Review D
(2023)
108,
104064
Measuring the ringdown scalar polarization of gravitational waves in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
T Evstafyeva, M Agathos, JL Ripley
– Physical Review D
(2023)
107,
124010
Unequal-mass boson-star binaries: initial data and merger dynamics
T Evstafyeva, U Sperhake, T Helfer, R Croft, M Radia, BX Ge, EA Lim
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2023)
40,
085009
The gravitational afterglow of boson stars
R Croft, T Helfer, BX Ge, M Radia, T Evstafyeva, EA Lim, U Sperhake, K Clough
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2023)
40,
065001

Research Group

Relativity and Gravitation

Room

BL.34

Telephone

01223 764292