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
The quantum 3D superparticle
– Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)
(2011)
7,
(doi: 10.3842/SIGMA.2011.005)
More on massive 3D supergravity
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2010)
28,
015002
Semionic supersymmetric solitons
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2010)
43,
465401
On maximal massive 3D supergravity
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2010)
27,
235012
Anyons from strings
– Physical Review Letters
(2010)
105,
191601
On the thermodynamics of moving bodies
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2010)
27,
175005
On the thermodynamics of moving bodies
– Journal of Physics Conference Series
(2010)
222,
012040
On higher derivatives in 3D gravity and higher-spin gauge theories
– Annals of Physics
(2010)
325,
1118
(doi: 10.1016/j.aop.2009.12.010)
On massive gravitons in 2+1 dimensions
– Journal of Physics
(2010)
229,
012005
Massive 3D supergravity
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2009)
27,
025010
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