About                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Allanian Ruth Gregory’s research centres on the interface between fundamental high energy physics and cosmology. She is best known for the Gregory–Laflamme instability, describing an instability of black strings in higher dimensions.

Having studied Mathematics at Cambridge, she went on to earn her PhD in Particle Cosmology with Stephen Hawking’s relativity group. While in Chicago as a postdoctoral researcher she spent three years at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and two years at the Fermi Institute in the University of Chicago. She returned to Cambridge on a five-year Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council advanced fellowship at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. She then moved to Durham on a Royal Society University Research Fellowship before becoming Head of Physics at King’s College London in 2021.

Ruth was awarded the 2006 Maxwell Medal by the Institute of Physics and Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award in 2011. 

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