PhD position: Prof Csaba Balazs

I work on a wide range of topics with my local group and in collaboration with numerous members of three large international collaborations.  The main focus of my work is understanding how the observed pattern of fundamental particles and forces emerged, using information carried by gravitational waves originating from the earliest times.  To this end, with members of the Global And Modular BSM Inference Tool (GAMBIT) Community I study various theoretical frameworks that extend the standard models of the elementary particles and cosmology to understand the nature of dark matter, dark forces and dark energy.  Within the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium I study the possibility of detecting dark matter in the centre of our galaxy and beyond.  With my colleagues in the Compact Linear Collider (CliC) Collaboration I examine the prospects of discovering new particles and forces using colliders and other terrestrial experiments.

• "Revealing the foundations of physics via gravitational waves from the early Universe"
• "Understanding the origin of matter using the stochastic gravitational wave background"
• "Uncovering the next generation of standard models using GAMBIT"
• "Using the Higgs boson to discover dark matter particles"
• "Detecting dark matter with the Cherenkov Telescope Array" (with Prof Eric Thrane)

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