Claudia de Rham

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Theoretical Physics

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 7841c.de-rham CV

Location

506Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

Summary

My expertise lies at the interface between particle physics, gravity and cosmology where I develop and test new models and paradigms.

Understanding Gravity at the Fundamental level:
Understanding gravity with an emphasize on theoretical consistency, quantum stability and relevance for cosmology.
Tests of Gravity: Using Gravitational Waves to probe gravity in conjunction with laboratory, Solar System, Astrophysical Cosmological tests and screening mechanisms.
Early Universe Cosmology: Probing signatures of the Early Universe be it for inflation or its alternatives.
Dark Energy: What is the source of the late–time acceleration of the Universe ?
Cosmological Constant Problem: Understanding the effect from vacuum energy of particle physics on cosmological scales.
UV Completeness: Understanding the low-energy restrictions to the existence of a standard high energy completion and consequences to Cosmology and Particle Physics.

See inSpires for a list of publications

Grants and Awards:

2018: Adams Prize co-recipient for contributions to Mathematics. Awarded by the University of Cambridge
2018: Blavatnik Finalist, in Physical Sciences and Engineering for the inaugural Blavatnik Awards in the UK
2017: EPFL Alumni Award
2017-2021: PI on Simons Foundation Award, ‘Origins of the Universe’ program
2017-2022: PI on ERC consolidator grant, for the project “Massive Gravity and Cosmology,"
2016–2021: Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
2012–2013: PI on ACES Advance Opportunity Grant, for the project “Recent Developments in Massive Gravity"
2010–2014: PI on Swiss National Foundation Professorship Grant, for the project “Challenging the cosmological paradigm."
Since 2013: Co-PI on various group grants

Publications

Journals

de Rham C, Melville S, Tolley AJ, et al.de Rham C, Melville S, Tolley AJ, Zhou S-Y close, 2019, Positivity bounds for massive spin-1 and spin-2 fields, Journal of High Energy Physics, ISSN:1029-8479

de Rham C, Melville S, Tolley AJ, et al.de Rham C, Melville S, Tolley AJ, Zhou S-Y close, 2019, UV complete me: positivity bounds for particles with spin, Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol:2018, ISSN:1029-8479

Dar F, de Rham C, Deskins JT, et al.Dar F, de Rham C, Deskins JT, Giblin JT, Tolley AJ close, 2019, Scalar gravitational radiation from binaries: Vainshtein mechanism in time-dependent systems, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Vol:36, ISSN:0264-9381

Amendola L, Appleby S, Avgoustidis A, et al.Amendola L, Appleby S, Avgoustidis A, Bacon D, Baker T, Baldi M, Bartolo N, Blanchard A, Bonvin C, Borgani S, Branchini E, Burrage C, Camera S, Carbone C, Casarini L, Cropper M, de Rham C, Dietrich JP, Di Porto C, Durrer R, Ealet A, Ferreira PG, Finelli F, Garcia-Bellido J, Giannantonio T, Guzzo L, Heavens A, Heisenberg L, Heymans C, Hoekstra H, Hollenstein L, Holmes R, Hwang Z, Jahnke K, Kitching TD, Koivisto T, Kunz M, La Vacca G, Linder E, March M, Marra V, Martins C, Majerotto E, Markovic D, Marsh D, Marulli F, Massey R, Mellier Y, Montanari F, Mota DF, Nunes NJ, Percival W, Pettorino V, Porciani C, Quercellini C, Read J, Rinaldi M, Sapone D, Sawicki I, Scaramella R, Skordis C, Simpson F, Taylor A, Thomas S, Trotta R, Verde L, Vernizzi F, Vollmer A, Wang Y, Weller J, Zlosnik T close, 2018, Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Euclid satellite, Living Reviews in Relativity, Vol:21, ISSN:1433-8351, Pages:1-345

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