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
Minimal massive 3D gravity
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2014)
31,
145008
Supertwistors and massive particles
– Annals of Physics
(2014)
346,
66
(doi: 10.1016/j.aop.2014.04.007)
All superparticles are BPS
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2014)
47,
175401
Zwei-dreibein gravity: A two-frame-field model of 3D massive gravity
– Physical review letters
(2013)
111,
111102
Equivalence of 3D spinning string and superstring
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2013)
2013,
24
(doi: 10.1007/jhep07(2013)024)
Thermodynamics of "Exotic" Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli Black Holes
– Physical review letters
(2013)
110,
241302
On the Hamiltonian form of 3D massive gravity
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2012)
86,
084035
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.86.084035)
New massive gravity
– 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity
(2012)
2329
(doi: 10.1142/9789814374552_0470)
On ``new massive'' 4D gravity
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2012)
1204,
70
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP04(2012)070)
3D strings and other anyonic things
– Fortschritte der Physik
(2012)
60,
1076
(doi: 10.1002/prop.201200001)
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