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Dr Clare Burrage
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham,
University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
0115 756 7903
Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH POSITIONS
01/2013 –
11/2011 –12/2012
10/2010 – 10/2011
10/2008 – 09/2010
Royal Society University Research Fellow and Proleptic Lecturer
Anne McLaren Research Fellow
Particle Theory Group, School of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Nottingham, UK
Postdoctoral Fellow (Assistante Post-Doctorante)
Cosmology Group, Départment de Physique Théorique,
Université de Genève, Switzerland
Postdoctoral Fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)
Theory Group, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany
EDUCATION
10/2005 – 09/2008
10/2004 – 06/2005
10/2001 – 06/2004
PhD (Physics)
Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP),
University of Cambridge, UK
Supervisor: Prof. Anne-Christine Davis
Thesis title: Scalar Fields and the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe
MMath (Part III Mathematics)
Class: Distinction
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, UK
MA (Mathematics)
Class: First
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, UK
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2013 – 2016 Royal Society Research Grant
£61,000
Funding for a three year PhD studentship.
Project title: Laboratory Searches for Dark Energy
2013 – 2018 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
£520,000
Project title: Dark Energy: Preparing Theory to Meet Experiment
Covers 80% of salary costs (the rest provided by Nottingham) and provides for
research and travel expenses.
2013
STFC Rutherford Fellowship
£400,000
Project title: Dark Energy: Preparing Theory to Meet Experiment
Declined in order to allow me to take up the Royal Society Fellowship
2012 – 2013 Anne McLaren Fellowship, awarded by The University of Nottingham
Three years independent funding and ~ £4,000 per annum research costs
RECENT INVITED SEMINARS
Dec. 2014
Oct. 2014
Cosmology in 2014. Invited review, Annual Theory Meeting, Durham.
Detecting Dark Energy in the Laboratory. Dark Energy Interactions Workshop.
NORDITA.
Jul. 2014
Disformal Couplings and Signatures. Non-linear Structure in the Modified Universe.
Lorentz Centre.
Sept. 2013
Disformal Light Shining Through Walls. IoP HEPP meeting on Low-Energy Frontier
of the High Energy Particle Physics. Daresbury.
May 2013
Dark Energy Screening Mechanisms. Irish Quantum Foundations Meeting, Dublin
Mar. 2013
Problems in the Current Theory Space. Cosmological Tests of Gravity Workshop,
Oxford.
Jan. 2013
Axion-like Particles from Dark Energy Models with Screening Mechanisms. Axiverse
Workshop, Oxford
I have also given invited seminars at the following Universities and Institutes: Birmingham, Bonn,
Cambridge, DESY, Durham, Geneva, Imperial College, Liverpool, Max Planck Institute for Physics,
Oxford, Portsmouth, Queen Mary University of London, Queensland. Saclay, Southampton,
Sussex, Würzburg.
Dr Clare Burrage
SUPERVISION OF AND COLLABORATION WITH RESEARCH STUDENTS
PhD Students
2014 –
Felipe Maycot. Co-supervision with Anastasios Avgoustidis
2013 –
James Stevenson
2010 – 2011 Lavinia Heisenberg. Principle supervisor Claudia de Rham
2010 – 2011 Raquel Ribeiro. Principle supervisor Anne-Christine Davis
1 paper
2 papers
1 paper
Masters Students
2010
Joanne Chorley. Research project supervision as part of the DESY Summer Student
Program.
TEACHING
Postgraduate
Jan 2015
Invited lecturer. Dark Energy and Modified Gravity. YETI, Theoretical and
Experimental Physics winter school. Durham, UK.
Sept 2012
Tutor at British Universities Summer School in Theoretical Elementary Particle
Physics (BUSSTEPP), summer school for postgraduate students, Durham, UK
Undergraduate
2014
Joint lecturer for Theory Toolbox (Mathematical Methods) course for 3rd year
undergraduates, for Bsc and Msci in Physics, University of Nottingham
2013 –
Supervisor for extended projects for 3rd and 4th year undergraduates,
for Bsc and Msci in Physics, University of Nottingham
2011
Tutor and examiner for course in Cosmology
for Bachelor in Physics, Université de Genève
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Reviewing
Journals
Physics Review Letters (PRL), Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(JCAP), Physical Review D (PRD), Classical and Quantum Gravity (CQG),
Grants
Royal Society International Exchange Scheme, Newton Mobility Grants (awarded by
the Royal Society), DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
Collaborations
Theory Group, Euclid satellite collaboration
Cosmology Working Group, eLISA consortium
External collaborator 2dfLens. Project: Cosmology fits to redshift space distortions and lensing
Organisation
2012 – 2013 Postdoc Lecture Series in the Particle Theory Group at the University of Nottingham
2012
UK HEP Young Experimentalists and Theorists Institute (YETI) winter school at the
University of Durham (Approx. 70 participants)
Professional Service
2015 –
Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Committee, Institute of Physics
2013 –
Diversity committee, University of Nottingham.
OUTREACH
Oct. 2014
Apr. 2014
Dec. 2013
Oct. 2013
Mar. 2012
Mar. 2012
Organiser of Nottingham Particle Physics Masterclass for 6th form students
Public talk at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (audience approx. 200)
Participant in the Royal Society MP-Scientist pairing scheme
Public talk at A Matter of Beauty exhibition, City Gallery Nottingham
Poster presentation at the Houses of Parliament SET for Britain event to connect
young scientists with the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee
Participant in I’m a scientist get me out of here! Online program to enable school
students to talk directly to scientists
Contributor to Science Channel series Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. Episode
titled How Does the Universe Work? First broadcast: 13 July 2011