Career
- Postdoc positions at SUNY, Stony Brook, USA; CERN (UK junior fellow), Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (Joliot-Curie fellow).
- Appointed DAMTP lecturer 1984. Currently DAMTP Professor of Theoretical Physics.
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2000
Research
General Relativity, supersymmetry, string/M-theory, solitons, cosmology and various topics in Mathematical Physics
Recent Publications
- E.A. Bergshoeff, W.Merbis, A.J. Routh and P.K. Townsend, ``The Third Way to 3D Gravity'', Int. J. Mod. Phys. D24 (2015) 1544015
- L. Mezincescu, A.J. Routh and P.K. Townsend, ``Twistors and the massive spinning particle'', J. Phys. A49 (2016) 025401
- A.S. Arvanitakis, L. Mezincescu and P.K. Townsend, ``Worldline CPT and massless supermultiplets'', Int. J. Mod. Phys. A31 (2016) 1650152
- J. Gomis and P.K. Townsend, ``The Galilean Superstring'', JHEP 1702 (2017) 105
- A.S. Arvanitakis, A.E. Barns-Graham and P.K. Townsend, ``Anti-de Sitter particles and manifest (super)isometries'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 118 (2017) 141601
Publications
Duality of type-II 7-branes and 8-branes
– Nuclear Physics B
(1996)
470,
113
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00171-x)
New supergravities with central charges and Killing spinors in 2+1 dimensions
– Nuclear Physics B
(1996)
467,
183
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00091-0)
Supergravity solitons and non-perturbative superstrings
– Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements
(1996)
45,
188
(doi: 10.1016/0920-5632(95)00636-2)
D-brane WZ terms, T-duality and the Cosmological Constant
– Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1996)
382,
65
Enhanced gauge symmetries in superstring theories
– Nuclear Physics Section B
(1995)
451,
525
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(95)00364-X)
Compactification of D = 11 supergravity on spaces of exceptional holonomy
– Physics Letters B
(1995)
357,
300
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(95)00929-f)
Anti-gravitating BPS monopoles and dyons
– Physics Letters B
(1995)
356,
472
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(95)00850-k)
STRING-MEMBRANE DUALITY IN 7 DIMENSIONS
– Physics Letters B
(1995)
354,
247
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(95)00649-6)
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