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 Deformations of G2Manifolds from Higher-Order Corrections to String and M-Theory
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2004)
8,
019
Supersymmetry of tensionless rotating strings in AdS(5) X S-5, and nearly-BPS operators
– J HIGH ENERGY PHYS
(2003)
ARTN 017
More on supersymmetric tensionless rotating strings in AdS5 x S5
– hep-th/0401058
(2003)
Accelerating Cosmologies from Compactification
– Physical Review Letters
(2003)
91,
061302
Odd coset quantum mechanics
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(2003)
566,
175
Surprises with angular momentum
– Annales Henri Poincaré
(2003)
4,
S183
(doi: 10.1007/s00023-003-0915-0)
Supersymmetric defect expansion in CFT from AdS supertubes
– JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2002)
048
Sigma-model soliton intersections from exceptional calibrations
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2002)
2002,
965
Intersoliton forces in the Wess–Zumino model
– Physics Letters B
(2002)
530,
227
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