
Professor of Theoretical Physics
Career
- 2007- DAMTP faculty, Fellow of Trinity College
 - 2005-2007 Lecturer, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham
 - 2005-2013 Royal Society University Research Fellow
 - 2003-2005 Postdoc, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara
 - 2000-2003 Postdoc, Physics Department, Queen Mary, University of London
 - 1997-2000 Ph.D, DAMTP
 
Research
General relativity.
Research Students
- Aidan McSharry (2025-)
 - Maxime Gadioux (2022-)
 - Iain Davies (2020-24)
 - Filipe Miguel (2019-23)
 - Aron Kovacs (2017-21)
 - Felicity Eperon (2015-19)
 - Giuseppe Papallo (2014-18)
 - Gabriel Bernardi de Freitas (2012-16)
 - Joseph Keir (2011-2015)
 - Mahdi Godazgar (2008-2012)
 - Mark Durkee (2007-2011)
 - Graeme Candlish (2005-2010)
 
Publications
Third law of black hole mechanics for supersymmetric black holes and a quasilocal mass-charge inequality
          – Physical Review D  
  
          (2024)  
  
          110,   
  
          124059  
  
          (doi: 10.1103/physrevd.110.124059)  
  
  A third law of black hole mechanics for supersymmetric black holes and a
  quasi-local mass-charge inequality
          (2024)  
  
  Evolution of creases on the event horizon of a black hole merger
          – Physical Review D  
  
          (2024)  
  
          110,   
  
          084029  
  
          (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.084029)  
  
  Nonperturbative Second Law of Black Hole Mechanics in Effective Field Theory
          – Phys Rev Lett  
  
          (2024)  
  
          132,   
  
          171402  
  
    
  A non-perturbative second law of black hole mechanics in effective field
  theory
          (2023)  
  
  Creases, corners, and caustics: Properties of nonsmooth structures on black hole horizons
          – Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology  
  
          (2023)  
  
          108,   
  
          084021  
  
          (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.084021)  
  
  Dynamical Black Hole Entropy in Effective Field Theory
          – Journal of High Energy Physics  
  
          (2023)  
  
          2023,   
  
          6  
  
          (doi: 10.1007/jhep05(2023)006)  
  
  Dynamical Black Hole Entropy in Effective Field Theory
          – Journal of High Energy Physics  
  
          (2023)  
  
          2023,   
  
          6  
  
          (doi: 10.1007/jhep05(2023)006)  
  
  A Stationary Black Hole Must be Axisymmetric in Effective Field Theory
          – Communications in Mathematical Physics  
  
          (2023)  
  
          401,   
  
          2757  
  
          (doi: 10.1007/s00220-023-04700-1)  
  
  Creases, corners and caustics: properties of non-smooth structures on
  black hole horizons
          (2023)  
  
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