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Southampton Theory Astrophysics and Gravity (STAG) Research Centre

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr Felix Haehl

UKRI/ERC Frontier Principal Res Fellow

Research interests

  • AdS/CFT duality
  • Black holes in quantum gravity
  • Conformal field theory

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: f.m.haehl@soton.ac.uk

Address: B54, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Francesco Shankar

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • Super-massive Black Hole Demography and Evolution
  • Galaxy Evolution: Spheroids and Bulges, Environment, High-redshift galaxies
  • Radio and Broad Absorption Line Active Galactic Nuclei

Email: f.shankar@soton.ac.uk

Address: B46, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Mr Graham Van Goffrier

Senior Research Assistant

Dr Graham White

Lecturer B

Dr Ian Hawke

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Numerical relativity
  • Neutron Stars
  • Gravitational waves

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: i.hawke@soton.ac.uk

Address: B54, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Ian Jones

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Research interests

  • Gravitational wave astronomy
  • Neutron stars
  • Radio pulsars

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: d.i.jones@soton.ac.uk

Address: B54, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Imogen Gingell

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Email: i.l.gingell@soton.ac.uk

Address: B46, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Ines Aniceto

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • 1. Perturbation theory and asymptotic analysis of N=non-perturbative phenomena in AdS/CFT
  • 2. Exponential Asymptotics and resurgence in non-linear ODEs and discrete equations
  • 3.  Exact quantisation methods for field theoretic observables

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: i.aniceto@soton.ac.uk

Address: B54, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Ioannis Matthaiakakis

STFC Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Holography and AdS/CMT correspondence
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Gravity