People

Leadership Team

Gabriele Travaglini

Prof Gabriele Travaglini

Professor of Theoretical Physics
Head of the Centre for Fundamental Physics

School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Quantum field theory, scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity, gravitational waves, string theory
Heli Hietala

Dr Heli Hietala

Royal Society University Research Fellow | Senior Lecturer in Space Plasma Physics
Member of the SPCS EDI committee
EDI champion for the Centre for Fundamental Physics

School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
shock waves, particle acceleration, multi-spacecraft missions, heliophysics, space weather
David Vegh

Dr David Vegh

Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Physics
MSc Euromasters Programme Director, Deputy UG SEB Chair
Webmaster for the Centre for Fundamental Physics

School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, AdS/CFT, Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, non-Fermi liquids, de Sitter space
Seth Zenz

Dr Seth Zenz

Reader in Experimental Particle Physics
Communication and Outreach Lead for the Centre for Fundamental Physics

School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Higgs boson, Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence