Dr Scott Melville
Lecturer of Cosmology
Stephen Hawking Fellow
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Cosmology, Gravity, Quantum Field Theory
Interests
I'm a theoretical physicist, working on uncovering the fundamental laws that describe our Universe.I study how to translate the measurements we make on large scales / low energies into new information about
small-scale / high-energy physics. I am particularly interested in using
(i) inflation in the early Universe,
(ii) dark energy in the late Universe, and
(iii) gravitational waves from black holes,
as laboratories for testing our current physical theories and looking for signs of new physics.
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental Physics
2024
Melville S and Pimentel GL (2024). de Sitter S matrix for the masses. Physical Review D, American Physical Society (APS) vol. 110 (10) 15-11-2024
2023
Davis AC and Melville S (2023). Orbital precession and hidden symmetries in scalar-tensor theories. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, IOP Publishing vol. 2023 (11) 01-11-2023
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental Physics
Amplitudes in the sky - Stephen Hawking Fellowship TransferScott Melville
£168,666 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (03-07-2023 - 28-02-2026)