Dr Clare Burrage Address: Telephone: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK 0115 756 7903 Email: Clare.Burrage@nottingham.ac.uk RESEARCH POSITIONS 01/2013 – 11/2011 –12/2012 10/2010 – 10/2011 10/2008 – 09/2010 Royal Society University Research Fellow and Proleptic Lecturer Anne McLaren Research Fellow Particle Theory Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, UK Postdoctoral Fellow (Assistante Post-Doctorante) Cosmology Group, Départment de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève, Switzerland Postdoctoral Fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) Theory Group, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany EDUCATION 10/2005 – 09/2008 10/2004 – 06/2005 10/2001 – 06/2004 PhD (Physics) Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge, UK Supervisor: Prof. Anne-Christine Davis Thesis title: Scalar Fields and the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe MMath (Part III Mathematics) Class: Distinction Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, UK MA (Mathematics) Class: First Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, UK FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2013 – 2016 Royal Society Research Grant £61,000 Funding for a three year PhD studentship. Project title: Laboratory Searches for Dark Energy 2013 – 2018 Royal Society University Research Fellowship £520,000 Project title: Dark Energy: Preparing Theory to Meet Experiment Covers 80% of salary costs (the rest provided by Nottingham) and provides for research and travel expenses. 2013 STFC Rutherford Fellowship £400,000 Project title: Dark Energy: Preparing Theory to Meet Experiment Declined in order to allow me to take up the Royal Society Fellowship 2012 – 2013 Anne McLaren Fellowship, awarded by The University of Nottingham Three years independent funding and ~ £4,000 per annum research costs RECENT INVITED SEMINARS Dec. 2014 Oct. 2014 Cosmology in 2014. Invited review, Annual Theory Meeting, Durham. Detecting Dark Energy in the Laboratory. Dark Energy Interactions Workshop. NORDITA. Jul. 2014 Disformal Couplings and Signatures. Non-linear Structure in the Modified Universe. Lorentz Centre. Sept. 2013 Disformal Light Shining Through Walls. IoP HEPP meeting on Low-Energy Frontier of the High Energy Particle Physics. Daresbury. May 2013 Dark Energy Screening Mechanisms. Irish Quantum Foundations Meeting, Dublin Mar. 2013 Problems in the Current Theory Space. Cosmological Tests of Gravity Workshop, Oxford. Jan. 2013 Axion-like Particles from Dark Energy Models with Screening Mechanisms. Axiverse Workshop, Oxford I have also given invited seminars at the following Universities and Institutes: Birmingham, Bonn, Cambridge, DESY, Durham, Geneva, Imperial College, Liverpool, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Oxford, Portsmouth, Queen Mary University of London, Queensland. Saclay, Southampton, Sussex, Würzburg. Dr Clare Burrage SUPERVISION OF AND COLLABORATION WITH RESEARCH STUDENTS PhD Students 2014 – Felipe Maycot. Co-supervision with Anastasios Avgoustidis 2013 – James Stevenson 2010 – 2011 Lavinia Heisenberg. Principle supervisor Claudia de Rham 2010 – 2011 Raquel Ribeiro. Principle supervisor Anne-Christine Davis 1 paper 2 papers 1 paper Masters Students 2010 Joanne Chorley. Research project supervision as part of the DESY Summer Student Program. TEACHING Postgraduate Jan 2015 Invited lecturer. Dark Energy and Modified Gravity. YETI, Theoretical and Experimental Physics winter school. Durham, UK. Sept 2012 Tutor at British Universities Summer School in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics (BUSSTEPP), summer school for postgraduate students, Durham, UK Undergraduate 2014 Joint lecturer for Theory Toolbox (Mathematical Methods) course for 3rd year undergraduates, for Bsc and Msci in Physics, University of Nottingham 2013 – Supervisor for extended projects for 3rd and 4th year undergraduates, for Bsc and Msci in Physics, University of Nottingham 2011 Tutor and examiner for course in Cosmology for Bachelor in Physics, Université de Genève PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Reviewing Journals Physics Review Letters (PRL), Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP), Physical Review D (PRD), Classical and Quantum Gravity (CQG), Grants Royal Society International Exchange Scheme, Newton Mobility Grants (awarded by the Royal Society), DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Collaborations Theory Group, Euclid satellite collaboration Cosmology Working Group, eLISA consortium External collaborator 2dfLens. Project: Cosmology fits to redshift space distortions and lensing Organisation 2012 – 2013 Postdoc Lecture Series in the Particle Theory Group at the University of Nottingham 2012 UK HEP Young Experimentalists and Theorists Institute (YETI) winter school at the University of Durham (Approx. 70 participants) Professional Service 2015 – Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Committee, Institute of Physics 2013 – Diversity committee, University of Nottingham. OUTREACH Oct. 2014 Apr. 2014 Dec. 2013 Oct. 2013 Mar. 2012 Mar. 2012 Organiser of Nottingham Particle Physics Masterclass for 6th form students Public talk at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (audience approx. 200) Participant in the Royal Society MP-Scientist pairing scheme Public talk at A Matter of Beauty exhibition, City Gallery Nottingham Poster presentation at the Houses of Parliament SET for Britain event to connect young scientists with the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee Participant in I’m a scientist get me out of here! Online program to enable school students to talk directly to scientists Contributor to Science Channel series Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. Episode titled How Does the Universe Work? First broadcast: 13 July 2011