Katy Clough

Numerical general relativity.

Numerical relativity has undergone a revolution in the past few years, driven both by recent breakthroughs in controlling unstable gauge modes and the rapid availability of powerful computer clusters. Simulations can give us an insight into cosmological problems which defy the perturbative approach, allowing us to derive a set of physical laws and principles. GRChombo provides the necessary theoretical and numerical infrastructure to attack these problems.

http://grchombo.github.io/

I have a first class Masters in Engineering Science from Oxford University, specialising in information and control engineering and mathematical methods. I qualified as a Chartered Accountant and worked for six years in taxation and finance. Having completed an Open University degree in Physics, I returned to academia to pursue a PhD in Numerical General Relativity at Kings College London. I have worked primarily on developing a high performance computer code for cosmological simulations, as part of a collaboration with colleagues from Cambridge, QMU and Argonne National Labs.