Laurence Perreault Levasseur
2011
I am a PhD candidate in theoretical Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) in the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Prof. Anne-Christine Davis. Before this, from 2009 to 2011, I was a Masters’ student at McGill University, under the supervision of Prof. Robert H. Brandenberger.
I am interested in early Universe cosmology, in particular in how the study of the earliest moments of the Universe can give us a better insight about fundamental physics. More precisely, most of my work has been focussed on inflation and alternatives, the theory of cosmological perturbations. and pre/reheating. Recently I have been interested in alternative models to inflation which violate the null-energy condition, such as ghost condensates and Galileons, and how they can be use to build consistent (or not) cosmological models.
A short introduction