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
Domain-wall/cosmology correspondence in AdS/dS supergravity
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2007)
2007,
036
Axion–dilaton domain walls and fake supergravity
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2007)
24,
3479
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/24/13/021)
Pseudo-supersymmetry and the domain-wall/cosmology correspondence
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2007)
40,
6733
(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/40/25/S18)
Planar super-Landau models revisited
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2007)
2007,
020
The D2 SUSY zoo
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2007)
2007,
013
Hamilton-Jacobi method for curved domain walls and cosmologies
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2006)
74,
125008
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.125008)
Recurrent acceleration in dilaton-axion cosmology
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2006)
74,
103508
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.103508)
Self-gravitating Yang monopoles in all dimensions
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2006)
23,
4873
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/23/15/007)
Hidden Supersymmetry of Domain Walls and Cosmologies
– Phys Rev Lett
(2006)
96,
191301
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