Dr Scott Melville
Senior Lecturer of Cosmology
Stephen Hawking Fellow
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Cosmology, Gravity, Quantum Field Theory
Interests
I'm a theoretical physicist, working on uncovering the fundamental laws that describe our Universe.
I study how to translate the measurements we make on large scales / low energies into new information about
small-scale / high-energy physics. I am particularly interested in using
(i) inflation in the early Universe,
(ii) dark energy in the late Universe, and
(iii) gravitational waves from black holes,
as laboratories for testing our current physical theories and looking for signs of new physics.
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental Physics

Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental Physics
2024
de Sitter S matrix for the massesMelville S Pimentel GL
Physical Review D,
American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 110 (10)
15-11-20242023
Orbital precession and hidden symmetries in scalar-tensor theoriesDavis AC Melville S
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics,
Iop Publishing vol. 2023 (11)
01-11-2023
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental Physics

Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental Physics
Amplitudes in the sky - Stephen Hawking Fellowship TransferScott Melville£168,666
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council03-07-2023 - 28-02-2026
Research Group
PhD Students
- Mephy Liu
Causality and Quasi-Normal Modes in Scalar-Tensor Theories - David Waisman Andrade
Au Project - Hongyi Wan
Quasi-Normal Modes and Efts of Gravity