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Lionel London

Dr Lionel London

Proleptic Lecturer

Research interests

  • Physics

Biography

Lionel London obtained his PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015 in Gravitational Wave Theory. He went on to post-doctoral work at Cardiff University from 2015 until 2019. From 2019 to 2021, he was a research associate at MIT, and from late 2021 to early 2022, he held a prize postdoctoral position at the University of Amsterdam’s centre for gravitation and astroparticle physics. Dr London began at King’s in 2022 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.

 

Research interests:

  • Gravitational waves, in particular, those from binary black hole mergers
  • Gravitational-wave signal modelling, and use in efforts such as LIGO, Virgo and Kagra
  • Single black hole perturbation theory (and related unsolved problems in standard GR)
  • Tests of General Relativity, particularly with quasi-normal modes
  • Gravitational-wave data analysis, Bayesian inference

Research

Physics telescope
Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology

The research focus of the TPPC Group is on tests of new models of particle physics beyond the Standard Model, including supersymmetry, large extra dimensions and strings.

Research

Physics telescope
Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology

The research focus of the TPPC Group is on tests of new models of particle physics beyond the Standard Model, including supersymmetry, large extra dimensions and strings.