Profile
I am a PhD student supervised by Dr Timothy Clifton. Below are some details of my current project.
Project title: The Newtonian limit of relativistic cosmological models
Description: Newtonian gravity is usually thought of as an approximation to Einstein’s theory of General Relativity (GR), which is our best description of the gravitational interaction, and is the predominant force on cosmological scales. GR provides a rigorous framework for the study of cosmology, but Newtonian gravity is much easier to deal with, and is often used as an approximation to describe gravitational phenomena in cosmology. This project aims to study the relationship between Newtonian gravity and general relativistic cosmological models in order to find a Newtonian language to describe the possible cosmological behaviours that are present within Einstein’s theory, and potentially to allow new inferences to be made about the general behaviour possible in relativistic cosmological models.
Research
Research Interests:
My research activities focus on the application of General Relativity to a cosmological context. More specifically, I use the 1+3 covariant approach, quasi-Newtonian description of spacetime and the post-Newtonian approximation.
Examples of research funding:
Science and Technology Facilities Funding (STFC)