Dr Wenyuan Ai

Biography

Wenyuan joined King's in 2021 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Before that he worked as a PDRA at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He completed his PhD at the University of Munich in Germany after finishing his master's and bachelor's studies at the Lanzhou University in China.

Thesis title

Aspects of false vacuum decay

Research interests

• Cosmological first-order phase transitions and their potential signals in gravitational waves
• Nonequilibrium quantum field theory, in particular, scalar field dynamics in the early Universe
• The strong CP problem
• Two-dimensional gravity
• PT-symmetric non-Hermitian QM/QFT