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
Supersymmetric extended solitons
– Physics Letters B
(1988)
202,
53
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(88)90852-0)
Wave equations for arbitrary spin from quantization of the extended supersymmetric spinning particle
– Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1988)
215,
555
The two-loop β-function for σ-models with torsion
– Physics Letters B
(1987)
191,
115
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(87)91331-1)
The two-loop β-function for σ-models with torsion
– Physics Letters B
(1987)
191,
115
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(87)91331-1)
Supermembranes and eleven-dimensional supergravity
– Physics Letters B
(1987)
189,
75
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(87)91272-X)
The Born-Infeld action from conformal invariance of the open superstring
– Physics Letters B
(1987)
188,
70
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(87)90707-6)
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