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Core faculty
The Bose group investigates experimental protocols to test the quantum nature of gravity. This includes a close collaboration with experimentalists cooling and levitating large masses.
The Oppenheim group is exploring an alternative to quantum gravity, in which spacetime remains classical while quantum theory is modified resulting in an intrinsic breakdown in predictability that is mediated by spacetime itself.
Peter Barker's research has concentrated on the cooling, manipulation and transport of atoms, molecules and nanoparticles in optical tweezers. He is exploring levitated nano-mechanical systems for quantum sensing.
Associate faculty
Christian Boehmer
Christian Böehmer (Mathematics) studies general relativity and cosmology, focusing on alternative gravity theories that avoid singularities.
Betti Hartmann
Betti Hartmann (Mathematics) researches general relativity and field theory, focusing on black holes, solitons, and applications to astrophysics and cosmology.
Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Harris (Mathematics) studies stochastic non‑equilibrium processes, including interacting particle systems and large deviations.
Rod Halburd
Rod Halburd (Mathematics) works on integrable systems, the anti‑self‑dual Yang‑Mills equations, general relativity and complex analysis.
Toby Cubitt
Toby Cubitt (Physics & Astronomy) is interested in mathematically rigorous toy models of AdS/CFT duality and its connections to quantum error correction and Hamiltonian simulation.
Lluis Masanes
Lluis Masanes (Physics & Astronomy) is interested in discrete holography and quantum causality.
Marzena Szymanska
Marzena Szymanska (Physics & Astronomy) studies out-of-equilibrium phenomena in light–matter systems, including exciton-polaritons, cavity and circuit QED, and cold atoms.
Andrew Green
Andrew Green (Physics & Astronomy) researches correlated quantum systems, including tensor network models in AdS/CFT and both equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium strongly correlated phenomena.
Clara Bradley
Clara Bradley (Philosophy) is a lecturer whose research focuses on the philosophy of physics, particularly the structure of gauge theories and their Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulations.
Tania Monteiro
Tania Monteiro (Physics & Astronomy) works at the interface of quantum and classical regimes and collaborates closely with experimentalists.
Johannes Noller
Johannes Noller (Physics & Astronomy) studies gravitational wave science, cosmology and particle physics, combining theoretical and data-driven methods and exploring dark energy.
Alessio Serafini
Alessio Serafini (Physics & Astronomy) specialises in quantum information with continuous variables, quantum optics and quantum control, including Gaussian states and quantum protocols.