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
Finite energy Dirac-Born-Infeld monopoles and string junctions
– Physical Review D
(1999)
6004,
045004
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.60.045004)
Solitons on the supermembrane
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(1999)
1999,
021
Superconformal mechanics, black holes, and nonlinear realizations
– Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology
(1999)
59,
1
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.084015)
Superconformal mechanics, black holes, and nonlinear realizations - art. no. 084015
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(1999)
5908,
1
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.59.084015)
Black holes and Calogero models
– Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics
(1999)
454,
187
Supersymmetric spacetimes in (2+1) adS-supergravity models
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
12,
895
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/12/4/003)
More on d=5 Maxwell-Einstein supergravity: Symmetric spaces and kinks
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
3,
763
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/3/5/007)
6-DIMENSIONAL SIMPLE AND EXTENDED CHIRAL SUPERGRAVITY IN SUPERSPACE
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
2,
L85
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/2/4/005)
The domain-wall/QFT correspondence
– The Journal of High Energy Physics
(1999)
01,
003
Massive ( p, q)-supersymmetric sigma models revisited
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
11,
2163
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/11/9/004)
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