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
M-brane intersections from worldvolume supersymmetry algebras
– Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1998)
421,
109
Super D-branes revisited
– Nuclear Physics, Section B
(1998)
531,
226
The M5-brane Hamiltonian
– Nuclear Physics, Section B
(1998)
533,
303
The manifestly Sl(2; ℤ)-covariant superstring
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(1997)
1,
M-theory superalgebra from the M-5-brane
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1997)
412,
265
Massive IIa supergravity from the topologically massive D-2-brane
– Physics Letters B
(1997)
410,
13
Membrane tension and manifest IIB S-duality
– Physics Letters B
(1997)
409,
131
Hyper-Kähler manifolds and multiply intersecting branes
– Nuclear Physics B
(1997)
500,
133
Domain walls in massive supergravities
– Nuclear Physics B
(1997)
486,
49
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