Prof Christopher White

Christopher White

Professor of Theoretical Physics
Programme Director: BSc Applied Artificial Intelligence

School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
www.qmul.ac.uk/spcs/staff/academics/profiles/christopherwhite.html
Centre for Fundamental Physics
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Research

Particle physics, Gravity, Theoretical physics, High energy physics, Research impact

Interests

I have a long-standing interest in the theory describing the tiny quarks and gluons that live inside the proton (Quantum Chromodynamics), including how to use this theory to predict what happens at particle physics experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider. In the last few years, I have studied a remarkable new relationship ("the double copy") between particle physics theories and gravity, extending this to black holes and other exotic objects. I have also looked at how measures from Quantum Information theory can be used to tell us about collider physics, and vice versa.

A further project involves mining online data, and using machine learning techniques, to see how we can quantify the societal impact of fundamental physics, and communicate this effectively to the general public.