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
Causality and energy conditions in nonlinear electrodynamics
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2024)
2024,
191
(doi: 10.1007/jhep06(2024)191)
Causal self-dual electrodynamics
– Physical Review D
(2024)
109,
105023
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.109.105023)
Trirefringence and the M5-brane
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2023)
2023,
171
(doi: 10.1007/jhep06(2023)171)
On chiral bosons in 2D and 6D
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2022)
2022,
142
(doi: 10.1007/jhep07(2022)142)
Aether, dark energy and string compactifications
– Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
(2022)
380,
20210185
(doi: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0185)
On p-form gauge theories and their conformal limits
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2021)
2021,
22
(doi: 10.1007/jhep03(2021)022)
Nonlinear duality-invariant conformal extension of Maxwell's equations
– Physical Review D
(2020)
102,
121703
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.121703)
An interacting conformal chiral 2-form electrodynamics in six dimensions.
– Proc Math Phys Eng Sci
(2020)
476,
20190863
(doi: 10.1098/rspa.2019.0863)
Manifestly Lorentz Invariant Chiral Boson Action.
– Physical review letters
(2020)
124,
101604
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