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
Tachyons, supertubes and brane/anti-brane systems
– J HIGH ENERGY PHYS
(2002)
ARTN 016
The s-rule exclusion principle and vacuum interpolation in worldvolume dynamics
– The Journal of High Energy Physics
(2002)
12,
027
The first law of black brane mechanics
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2001)
18,
5269
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/18/23/320)
Multidomain walls in massive supersymmetric sigma models
– Physical Review D
(2001)
6402,
025010
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.64.025010)
The heterotic dyonic instanton
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2001)
2001,
046
D-brane solitons in supersymmetric sigma models
– Physical Review D
(2001)
6308,
085002
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.63.085002)
Supersymmetric intersecting domain walls in massive hyper-Kähler sigma models
– Physical Review D
(2001)
6308,
085001
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.63.085001)
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