Dr Timothy Clifton

Profile

I'm a theoretical cosmologist who builds mathematical models of the Universe, in order to understand what cosmological observations can tell us about relativistic gravity and the large-scale structure of space-time.

I graduated with a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2006, and have worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University as a Lindemann Fellow, at the University of Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow of Jesus College, and at CERN as a CERN Fellow. I joined Queen Mary in 2012 as a Advanced Fellow of the STFC research council, and am now a Reader in the Astronomy Unit of the School of Physics and Astronomy. I am a long standing member of the Gravitational Physics Group at the Institute of Physics, and am a member of the editorial board of Classical and Quantum Gravity. I am also the admissions tutor for PhD programmes in astronomy at Queen Mary.

Teaching

I lecture modules on Quantum Mechanics A and Relativity & Gravitation, and supervise projects in relativity and cosmology.

In the past I have taught Quantum Mechanics, Electromagnetism and Special Relativity at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford.

Research

Research Interests:

See Timothy Clifton’s research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.

Supervision

This is not an exhaustive list and I would be happy to discuss other project possibilities.

Grants

I am supported by the STFC.