ProfessorClaudia de Rham

Professor of Theoretical Physics

Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences

TEACHING INTERESTS

  • Currently Teaching Year 4 General Relativity (Autumn 2025) and Year 2 Mathematical Methods (Spring 2026)
  • Lectured more 23 undergraduate and graduate courses at Waterloo University, Canada; University of Geneva, Switzerland; CWRU, USA and at Imperial College London, UK, including on Math Analysis & Vector Calculus, Mechanics, Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Advanced Classical Physics, Field Theory, Advanced Quantum Field theory, Cosmology, General Relativity, Advanced Effective Field Theory.
  • Nominated for both the Outstanding Teaching award and the Outstanding Personal Tutoring award at Imperial College London, student choice award.
  • Invited lecturer at 12 international summer school. Recent ones including 2025 Physics Latam lectures on EFT of gravity; 2025 Kathmandu string Theory Summer Camp; 2023 lectures on Effective Field Theory approaches for Gravity and Cosmology, DESY, Germany; 2020 Aotearoa Mathematical Aspects of General Relativity, New Zealand, (together with Chrusciel, Cvetic, Taubes and Witten) and 2019 Saalburg-Heraeus Summer School for Graduate Students on “Foundations and New Methods in Theoretical Physics”, Germany, (together with Bjerrum-Bohr, Godazgar, Giulini and Perry).