Research Interests

My current research interests concern higher dimensional gravity/General Relativity, usually in the context of string theory and the gauge/gravity correspondence. I have a particular interest in black hole solutions. A full list of my papers can be found here and here .

Research Groups

• Geometry and Topology
• Mathematical Physics

Biographical Statement

I was born in Leicestershire and was raised there and northern Italy. I studied at the University of Cambridge, where I obtained a Bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences, followed by Part III Mathematics and a PhD in string theory at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. I was then a college lecturer at Oxford University and a postdoc at Durham University. In 2009 I was awarded an EPSRC career acceleration fellowship with Imperial College London, where I spent a year, before moving to the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in 2010.

Education Background

PhD in Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge (DAMTP) (2005)

Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics ("Part III"), University of Cambridge (2001)

BA in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge (2000)

Previous Employment

EPSRC Research Fellow, Imperial College London (2009-2010)

Research Associate, Durham University (2006-2009)

College Lecturer, St John's College, University of Oxford (2005-2006)

Education

PhD
University of Cambridge (2005)

CASM
University of Cambridge (2001)

BA
University of Cambridge (2000)