Southampton Theory Astrophysics and Gravity (STAG) Research Centre

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Professor Manda Banerji

Associate Dean-Equality, Div. & Inc.

Research interests

  • Galaxy formation and evolution
  • Active galaxies and supermassive black holes
  • Wide-field imaging and spectroscopic surveys

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Professor Mark Sullivan

Associate Dean-Research

Research interests

  • Supernovae
  • Time domain astronomy
  • Cosmology

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Professor Matthew Middleton

Professor
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Dr Mehtap Ozbey Arabaci

Research Software Engineer
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Dr Miquel Miravet Tenés

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Neutron stars and their mergers
  • Numerical relativity
  • Gravitational waves
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Dr Nawapat Kaweeyanun

Res Fellow in Magnetospheric Physics

Research interests

  • Auroras
  • Terrestrial Magnetosphere
  • Planetary and Moon Magnetospheres
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Professor Nicholas Evans

Professor of Particle Physics

Research interests

  • Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories including QCD and composite Higgs models
  • Holographic Descriptions of Gauge Theories
  • The origin of mass

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Professor Nils Andersson

Professor of Applied Maths

Research interests

  • General relativistic astrosphysics
  • Black holes
  • Neutron stars

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Dr Ömer Gürdoğan

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Scattering amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory (QFT) and their mathematical properties
  • Multi-loop pertrubative calculations using bootstrap techniques
  • Applications of cluster algebras and related concepts to QFT

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Professor Oscar Dias

Professor

Research interests

  • Einstein's gravity
  • Black holes
  • Holographic dualities (gravity/gauge theory dualities)

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