Professor George Papadopoulos
Telephone: +44 020 7848 2227
Email: george.papadopoulos@kcl.ac.uk
Office: S4.16, Strand Building, Strand Campus
Title: Professor in Theoretical Physics
Biography
Fellow of Institute of Physics, Member of London Mathematical Society.
Current Position: Professor of Theoretical Physics
Degree in Physics, University of Athens; DIC, Imperial College; PhD in Mathematics, King's College London.
Postdoctoral researcher at Queen Mary College, Physics Department; King's College London, Mathematics Department; II Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg, Desy.
Royal Society Research Fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge and Department of Mathematics, King's College London.
Research Interests
George's research interests are in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, and include string theory, M-theory, supergravity, and the geometrical aspects of supersymmetry. His current research is focused on the classification of supersymmetric solutions of gravity theories, the understanding of special geometry, and the investigation of uniqueness theorems for black holes.
Selection of Publications
Some of his papers are:
``Heterotic Black Horizons,''
arXiv:0912.3472 [hep-th] (with J Gutowski)
``M2-branes, 3-Lie Algebras and Plucker relations,''
JHEP 0805 (2008) 054 arXiv:0804.2662 [hep-th].
``The spinorial geometry of supersymmetric backgrounds,''
Class. Quant. Grav. 22 (2005) 1033 [arXiv:hep-th/0410155] (with J Gillard and U Gran)
``Penrose limits and maximal supersymmetry,''
Class. Quant. Grav. 19 (2002) L87 [arXiv:hep-th/0201081] (with M Blau, JM Figueroa-O'Farrill and C Hull)
``A new maximally supersymmetric background of IIB superstring theory,''
JHEP 0201 (2002) 047 [arXiv:hep-th/0110242] (with M Blau, JM Figueroa-O'Farrill and C Hull)
``Intersecting M-branes,''
Phys. Lett. B 380 (1996) 273 [arXiv:hep-th/9603087] (with PK Townsend)