Professor Malcolm PerryProfessor of Theoretical PhysicsEmail: malcolm.perry@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: G. O. Jones Building, Room 607ProfilePublicationsProfileProfessor Perry is a British theoretical physicist and a Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge. He was professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge prior to joining Queen Mary. Malcolm attended King Edward’s School in Birmingham before reading physics at St John’s College in Oxford and was a graduate student at King’s College in Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Stephen Hawking. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Cambridge with a thesis on the quantum mechanics of black holes. During his fellowship, he has made a major contribution to Euclidean quantum gravity and black hole radiation with Gary Gibbons and Stephen Hawking as applied through Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Malcolm’s aim is to advance our understanding of black hole physics and further our knowledge of the low-energy, or infrared, regime of quantum electrodynamics, gauge theories, and gravitation. Professor Perry has won awards from the Gravity Research Foundation and holds a Sloan Research Fellowship. His most recent work with Stephen Hawking and Andrew Strominger is the most significant step to solving the long standing information paradox for black holes and also to horizons in cosmological models. With Perimeter Institute Faculty member Robert Myers, he developed the Myers-Perry metric, which shows how to construct black holes in the higher space-time dimensions associated with string theory. He is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Relativity and Gravitation research group.ResearchPublicationsMy list of publications: Complete list of publications on inspirehep.net Perry MJ, Rodriguez MJ (publicationYear). CFT duals of Kerr-Taub-NUT and beyond. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/jhep10(2024)078 QMRO: qmroHref Perry MJ (publicationYear). Some hidden structure in BKL. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/jhep05(2023)161 QMRO: qmroHref Akhoury R, Choi S, Perry MJ (2023). Singular supertranslations and Chern-Simons theory on the black hole horizon. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.107.085019 QMRO: qmroHref Akhoury R, Choi S, Perry MJ (2022). Holography from Singular Supertranslations on a Black Hole Horizon. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.221603 QMRO: qmroHref Perry MJ (2022). Black hole entropy from soft hair. The Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting DOI: 10.1142/9789811258251_0004 QMRO: qmroHref Perry M, Rodriguez MJ (2022). Central charges for AdS black holes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/ac45d8 QMRO: qmroHref Gonzalez E, Kane G, Nguyen KD et al. (2021). Quark and lepton mass matrices from localization in M-theory on G2 orbifold. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.103.126027 QMRO: qmroHref Perry MJ (2020). Black hole entropy from soft hair. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1142/s0218271820300128 QMRO: qmroHref Godazgar H, Godazgar M, Perry MJ (2020). Asymptotic Gravitational Charges. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.101301 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/67708 Godazgar H, Godazgar M, Perry MJ (2020). Hamiltonian derivation of dual gravitational charges. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2020)084 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/67709 Carr BJ, Ellis GFR, Gibbons GW et al. (2019). Stephen William Hawking CH CBE. 8 January 194214 March 2018. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.2019.0001 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/71118 Haco S, Hawking SW, Perry MJ et al. (2019). Black hole entropy and soft hair. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/jhep12(2018)098 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61139 Acharya BS, Ellis SAR, Kane GL et al. (2018). Categorisation and detection of dark matter candidates from string/M-theory hidden sectors. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/jhep09(2018)130 QMRO: qmroHref GIBBONS GW, PERRY MJ (1993). Black holes and thermal Green functions. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1142/9789814539395_0013 QMRO: qmroHref Gross DJ, Perry MJ, Yaffe LG (1993). Instability of flat space at finite temperature. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1142/9789814539395_0015 QMRO: qmroHref GIBBONS GW, HAWKING SW, PERRY MJ (1993). PATH INTEGRALS AND THE INDEFINITENESS OF THE GRAVITATIONAL ACTION. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1142/9789814539395_0004 QMRO: qmroHref Haco SJ, Hawking SW, Perry MJ et al. (2017). The conformal BMS group. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/jhep11(2017)012 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61861 Kapec D, Perry M, Raclariu A-M et al. (2017). Infrared divergences in QED revisited. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.96.085002 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61140 Hawking SW, Perry MJ, Strominger A (2019). Superrotation charge and supertranslation hair on black holes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/jhep05(2017)161 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61142 Acharya BS, Ellis SAR, Kane GL et al. (2016). Lightest Visible-Sector Supersymmetric Particle is Likely to be Unstable. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.181802 QMRO: qmroHref Hawking SW, Perry MJ, Strominger A (2016). Soft Hair on Black Holes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.231301 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61144 Perry MJ (2015). What is an electron?. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1142/s0217732315300074 QMRO: qmroHref Kane GL, Perry MJ (2015). What is a Quark?. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1142/9789814618113_0009 QMRO: qmroHref Kane GL, Perry MJ (2015). What is a quark?. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1142/s0217751x15300069 QMRO: qmroHref Perry MJ (2015). What is an Electron?. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1142/9789814602686_0001 QMRO: qmroHref Mersini-Houghton L, Perry MJ (2014). Localization on the landscape and eternal inflation. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/31/21/215008 QMRO: qmroHref Berman DS, Cederwall M, Perry MJ (2014). Global aspects of double geometry. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/jhep09(2014)066 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/13002 Mersini-Houghton L, Perry MJ (2014). The end of eternal inflation. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/31/16/165005 QMRO: qmroHref Berman DS, Blair CDA, Malek E et al. (2014). The OD, D geometry of string theory. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1142/s0217751x14500808 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/13256 Percacci R, Perry MJ, Pope CN et al. (2014). Beta functions of topologically massive supergravity. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/jhep03(2014)083 QMRO: qmroHref Godazgar H, Godazgar M, Perry MJ (2013). E8 duality and dual gravity. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/jhep06(2013)044 QMRO: qmroHref GIBBONS GW, PERRY MJ (1992). THE PHYSICS OF 2D STRINGY SPACETIMES. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1142/s0218271892000161 QMRO: qmroHref BARRETT J, GIBBONS GW, PERRY MJ et al. (1994). KLEINIAN GEOMETRY AND THE N = 2 SUPERSTRING. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1142/s0217751x94000650 QMRO: qmroHref ADAMS FC, KANE GL, MBONYE M et al. (2001). PROTON DECAY, BLACK HOLES, AND LARGE EXTRA DIMENSIONS. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1142/s0217751x0100369x QMRO: qmroHref Berman DS, Godazgar H, Perry MJ et al. (2012). Duality invariant actions and generalised geometry. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)108 QMRO: qmroHref Berman DS, Godazgar H, Godazgar M et al. (2012). The local symmetries of M-theory and their formulation in generalised geometry. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2012)012 QMRO: qmroHref Berman DS, Musaev ET, Perry MJ (2011). Boundary terms in generalized geometry and doubled field theory. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.019 QMRO: qmroHref Berman DS, Musaev ET, Perry MJ (2011). Boundary terms in generalized geometry and doubled field theory. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.019 QMRO: qmroHref Berman DS, Perry MJ (2011). Generalized geometry and M theory. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2011)074 QMRO: qmroHref Berman DS, Godazgar H, Perry MJ (2011). SO(5,5) duality in M-theory and generalized geometry. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.04.046 QMRO: qmroHref Godazgar H, Perry MJ (2011). Real fermionic symmetry in type II supergravity. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/jhep01(2011)032 QMRO: qmroHref Berman DS, Perry MJ, Sezgin E et al. (2010). Boundary conditions for interacting membranes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/jhep04(2010)025 QMRO: qmroHref Lü H, Perry MJ, Pope CN et al. (2010). Kac–Moody and Virasoro symmetries of principal chiral sigma models. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.09.030 QMRO: qmroHref Monteiro R, Perry MJ, Santos JE (2010). Semiclassical instabilities of Kerr-anti-de Sitter black holes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.81.024001 QMRO: qmroHref Berman DS, Perry MJ, Sezgin E et al. (2010). Boundary conditions for interacting membranes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2010)025 QMRO: qmroHref Monteiro R, Perry MJ, Santos JE (2009). Thermodynamic instability of rotating black holes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.80.024041 QMRO: qmroHref Lü H, Perry MJ, Pope CN (2009). Infinite-dimensional symmetries of two-dimensional coset models. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.07.035 QMRO: qmroHref Watson S, Perry MJ, Kane GL et al. (2007). Inflation without inflaton(s). nameOfConference DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/11/017 QMRO: qmroHref Gibbons GW, Perry MJ, Pope CN (2006). Partition functions, the Bekenstein bound and temperature inversion in anti-de Sitter space and its conformal boundary. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.74.084009 QMRO: qmroHref Berman DS, Perry MJ (2006). M-theory and the string genus expansion. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2006.02.038 QMRO: qmroHref Gibbons GW, Perry MJ, Pope CN (2005). Anti–de Sitter-Space/Conformal-Field-Theory Casimir Energy for Rotating Black Holes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.231601 QMRO: qmroHref Gibbons GW, Perry MJ, Pope CN (2005). Bulk-boundary thermodynamic equivalence, and the Bekenstein and cosmic-censorship bounds for rotating charged AdS black holes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.72.084028 QMRO: qmroHref Gibbons GW, Perry MJ, Pope CN (2005). The first law of thermodynamics for Kerr–anti-de Sitter black holes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/22/9/002 QMRO: qmroHref Kane GL, Perry MJ, Żytkow AN (2005). An approach to the cosmological constant problem(s). nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2004.12.078 QMRO: qmroHref Kostelecký VA, Lehnert R, Perry MJ (2003). Spacetime-varying couplings and Lorentz violation. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.68.123511 QMRO: qmroHref Ng S, Perry M (2002). Brane splitting via quantum tunneling. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(02)00346-2 QMRO: qmroHref Kane GL, Perry MJ, Zytkow AN (2002). The beginning of the end of the anthropic principle. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/s1384-1076(01)00088-4 QMRO: qmroHref Mbonye M, Adams FC, Perry MJ (2001). From stellar entropy to black hole entropy. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1063/1.1419678 QMRO: qmroHref Costa MS, Perry MJ (2000). Interacting black holes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(00)00577-0 QMRO: qmroHref Kostelecký VA, Perry MJ, Potting R (2000). Off-Shell Structure of the String Sigma Model. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.84.4541 QMRO: qmroHref Brecher D, Perry MJ (2000). Ricci-flat branes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(99)00659-8 QMRO: qmroHref Codirla C, Perry MJ (1999). Compactification of supermembranes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(99)00499-x QMRO: qmroHref Chamblin HA, Perry MJ, Reall HS (publicationYear). Non-BPS D8-branes and dynamic domain walls in massive IIA supergravities. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/09/014 QMRO: qmroHref Costa MS, Perry MJ (1997). Kaluza - Klein electrically charged black branes in M-theory. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/14/3/007 QMRO: qmroHref Evans JM, Gaberdiel MR, Perry MJ (1998). The no-ghost theorem for AdS3 and the stringy exclusion principle. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00561-6 QMRO: qmroHref Adams FC, Laughlin G, Mbonye M et al. (1998). Gravitational demise of cold degenerate stars. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.58.083003 QMRO: qmroHref Brecher D, Perry MJ (1998). Bound states of D-branes and the non-abelian Born-Infeld action. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00297-1 QMRO: qmroHref Costa MS, Perry MJ (1998). Torons and black hole entropy. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00193-x QMRO: qmroHref Costa MS, Perry MJ (1998). Landau degeneracy and black hole entropy. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00051-0 QMRO: qmroHref Hewson S, Perry M (1997). The twelve-dimensional super-(2 + 2)-brane. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(97)80035-1 QMRO: qmroHref Gibbons GW, Perry MJ (1978). Black holes and thermal Green functions. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1978.0022 QMRO: qmroHref Hewson S, Perry M (1997). Exact non-abelian target space duality. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/s0370-2693(96)01505-5 QMRO: qmroHref Gibbons GW, Green MB, Perry MJ (1996). Instantons and seven-branes in type IIB superstring theory. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(95)01565-5 QMRO: qmroHref Kostelecký VA, Perry MJ (1996). Solitonic black holes in gauged N = 2 supergravity. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(95)01607-4 QMRO: qmroHref Goldwirth DS, Perry MJ (1994). String-dominated cosmology. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.49.5019 QMRO: qmroHref Goldwirth DS, Perry MJ, Piran T et al. (1994). Quantum propagator for a nonrelativistic particle in the vicinity of a time machine. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.49.3951 QMRO: qmroHref Kostelecký VA, Perry M (1994). No more spacetime singularities?. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/bf02088204 QMRO: qmroHref Kostelecký VA, Perry MJ (1994). Condensates and singularities in string theory. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(94)90427-8 QMRO: qmroHref Kostelecký VA, Perry MJ (1994). Tachyon hair for two-dimensional black holes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(94)90490-1 QMRO: qmroHref Perry MJ, Teo E (1993). Topological conformal gravity in four dimensions. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(93)90303-7 QMRO: qmroHref Perry MJ, Teo E (1993). Nonsingularity of the exact two-dimensional string black hole. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.70.2669 QMRO: qmroHref Perry MJ, Teo E (1993). BRS and anti-BRS symmetry in topological Yang-Mills theory. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(93)90677-h QMRO: qmroHref Goldwirth DS, Perry MJ, Piran T (1993). The breakdown of quantum mechanics in the presence of time machinest. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/bf00756924 QMRO: qmroHref Linden N, Perry MJ (1991). Path integrals and unitarity in quantum cosmology. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(91)90470-i QMRO: qmroHref Kolb EW, Perry MJ, Walker TP (1986). Time variation of fundamental constants, primordial nucleosynthesis, and the size of extra dimensions. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.33.869 QMRO: qmroHref Harvey JA, Kolb EW, Perry MJ (1984). Cosmological production of Kaluza-Klein monopoles. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(84)90367-8 QMRO: qmroHref Gibbons GW, Perry MJ (1984). Soliton supermultiplets and Kaluza-Klein theory. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(84)90615-1 QMRO: qmroHref Strominger A, Horowitz GT, Perry MJ (1984). Instantons in conformal gravity. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(84)90340-7 QMRO: qmroHref Perry MJ (1984). Non-abelian Kaluza-Klein monopoles. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(84)90224-7 QMRO: qmroHref Perry MJ (1984). Kaluza-Klein Theories and the Dirac Monopole. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-0375-7_4 QMRO: qmroHref Gross DJ, Perry MJ (1983). Magnetic monopoles in Kaluza-Klein theories. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(83)90462-5 QMRO: qmroHref Gibbons GW, Hawking SW, Horowitz GT et al. (1983). Positive mass theorems for black holes. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/bf01213209 QMRO: qmroHref Ginsparg P, Perry MJ (1983). Semiclassical perdurance of de Sitter space. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(83)90636-3 QMRO: qmroHref Horowitz GT, Perry MJ (1983). Black holes and the stability of gravitation. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1007/bf00755890 QMRO: qmroHref Horowitz GT, Perry MJ (1982). Gravitational Energy Cannot Become Negative. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.48.371 QMRO: qmroHref Gross DJ, Perry MJ, Yaffe LG (1982). Instability of flat space at finite temperature. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.25.330 QMRO: qmroHref Lapedes AS, Perry MJ (1981). Type-D gravitational instantons. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.24.1478 QMRO: qmroHref Hasslacher B, Perry MJ (1981). Spin networks are simplicial quantum gravity. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(81)90185-4 QMRO: qmroHref Gibbons GW, Perry MJ (1980). New gravitational instantons and their interactions. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.22.313 QMRO: qmroHref Gibbons GW, Perry MJ (1978). Quantizing gravitational instantons. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(78)90434-0 QMRO: qmroHref Perry MJ (1978). Anomalies in supergravity. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(78)90450-9 QMRO: qmroHref Gibbons GW, Hawking SW, Perry MJ (1978). Path integrals and the indefiniteness of the gravitational action. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(78)90161-x QMRO: qmroHref Gibbons GW, Perry MJ (1976). Black Holes in Thermal Equilibrium. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.36.985 QMRO: qmroHref Collins JC, Perry MJ (1975). Superdense Matter: Neutrons or Asymptotically Free Quarks?. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.34.1353 QMRO: qmroHref