DrKarapet Mkrtchyan

Research Associate

Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences

  • Research Associate
    Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
  • 520, Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom

BIO

I am a theoretical physicist working on field theory problems involving unconventional symmetries. My work, particularly, has been related to higher-spin gravity, colored gravity, electric-magnetic duality, and self-dual fields.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Research Associate
    Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom1 Dec 2022 - present
  • Marie-Curie Research Fellow
    Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom1 Dec 2020 - 30 Nov 2022
  • Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics
    Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Scienze, Pisa, Italy15 Sep 2019 - 30 Nov 2020
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany1 Oct 2018 - 14 Sep 2019
  • Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany3 Oct 2016 - 30 Sep 2018
  • BK Postdoctoral Fellow
    Seoul National University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul, South Korea12 Jan 2015 - 31 Jul 2016
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
    Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy3 Oct 2011 - 4 Oct 2014

LANGUAGES

  • Armenian
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Russian
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Italian
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • German
    Can read and understand
  • Finnish
    Can read and write

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Natural Sciences

POSITION NAME

  • Research Associate

FIELDS OF RESEARCH