Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Professor Francesco Shankar

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • Super-massive Black Hole Demography and Evolution
  • Galaxy Evolution: Spheroids and Bulges, Environment, High-redshift galaxies
  • Radio and Broad Absorption Line Active Galactic Nuclei
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Dr Fridrik Freyr Gautason

Lecturer in String Theory

Research interests

  • String theory
  • Supersymmetric quantum field theories
  • Holography

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Graham White

Lecturer B
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Dr Gregory Ashton

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Gravitational-wavesBlack holesNeutron starsComputational Bayesian inferenceDetector character…

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Professor Ian Hawke

Professor

Research interests

  • Numerical relativity
  • Neutron Stars
  • Gravitational waves

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Professor Ian Jones

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Gravitational wave astronomy
  • Neutron stars
  • Radio pulsars

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Dr Imogen Gingell

Principal Research Fellow
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Dr Ines Aniceto

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

  • 1. Perturbation theory and asymptotic analysis of N=non-perturbative phenomena in AdS/CFT
  • 2. Exponential Asymptotics and resurgence in non-linear ODEs and discrete equations
  • 3.  Exact quantisation methods for field theoretic observables

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Dr Ioannis Matthaiakakis

STFC Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Holography and AdS/CMT correspondence
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Gravity
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