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 Theoretical Physics and Astronomy
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy
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 A-C Melville S
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics,
Iop Publishing vol. 2023 (11)
01-11-2023
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
News
April 2026
29 April 2026
Researchers in the Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences and the Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary have been awarded £1.4 million from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to fund the four-year ... [more]
