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
On asymptotic charges in 3D gravity
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2020)
37,
035003
(doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/ab5ea5)
DBI in the IR
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2020)
53,
044002
(doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/ab5eab)
Time-dependent compactification to de Sitter space: a no-go theorem
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2019)
2019,
97
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP06(2019)097)
On-shell versus Off-shell Equivalence in 3D Gravity
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2019)
36,
095013
(doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/ab10e7)
Late-time cosmic acceleration from compactification
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2019)
36,
095008
(doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/ab0804)
Exotic massive 3D gravity
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2018)
2018,
35
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP08(2018)035)
Gravity and the Spin-2 Planar Schrödinger Equation
– Physical review letters
(2018)
120,
141601
Twistor description of spinning particles in AdS
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2018)
2018,
59
(doi: 10.1007/jhep01(2018)059)
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