Status:
- Professor of Mathematical Physics
- Tutorial Fellow, Oriel College
Personal website:
+44 1865 615324
ORCID iD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3699-5225
Research groups:
Address
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Highlighted Publications:
The holographic supersymmetric Casimir energy
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
issue 021902(R)
volume 95
(10 January 2017)
The gravity dual of supersymmetric gauge theories on a squashed three-sphere
Nuclear Physics B
issue 3
volume 864
page 840-868
(21 November 2012)
Sasaki-Einstein manifolds and volume minimisation
Communications in Mathematical Physics
issue 3
volume 280
page 611-673
(1 June 2008)
Gauge theories from toric geometry and brane tilings
Journal of High Energy Physics
issue 1
page 3295-3334
(10 April 2006)
Sasaki-Einstein metrics on S^2 x S^3
Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
issue 4
volume 8
page 711-734
(August 2004)
Recent Publications:
D3-branes wrapped on a spindle
Physical Review Letters
issue 2021
volume 126
(18 March 2021)
"Lagrangian disks" in M-theory
Journal of High Energy Physics
issue 11
volume 2020
(10 November 2020)
$\mathcal{I}$/$c$-Extremization in M/F-Duality
Fibred GK geometry and supersymmetric AdS solutions
Journal of High Energy Physics
issue 11
volume 2019
(29 November 2019)
Localization of the action in AdS/CFT
Journal of High Energy Physics
issue 10
volume 2019
(25 October 2019)
Research interests:
Mathematical physics, theoretical physics, geometry. More specifically I work on supersymmetric field theories, supergravity, and the how these are related via the AdS/CFT correspondence. I'm also interested in geometric structures that arise in string theory and theoretical physics more broadly, notably special holonomy manifolds, Sasaki-Einstein manifolds, and generalized geometry.
Teaching:
In 2020/21 I will be lecturing Part A Quantum Theory. I have previously lectured Prelims Dynamics, Part A courses on Quantum Theory and Electromagnetism, and Part B Classical Mechanics. Lecture material may be found on my personal webpage, via the link on the left.
Major / recent publications:
My publications may be found on SPIRES.