Trevor Bamidele Davies

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Trevor Bamidele Davies

FRAS
Born(1972-09-28)September 28, 1972
Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
NationalityBritish
Alma materLondon Metropolitan University
University of London
University of Aberdeen
Scientific career
FieldsMathematical Physics
Gravitation Theories
InstitutionsCity of Westminster College
University College London
University of Central Asia
ThesisQuadratic Scalar-Tensor Gravity
Doctoral advisorCharles H. Wang[1][2]

Trevor Bamidele Davies FRAS is a British mathematical physicist and science educator. His research is primarily concerned with spontaneous growth in a class of scalar-tensor theories involving techniques from non-linear dynamics, analytical mechanics and the parameterized post-Newtonian formalism.[3][4]

Early life and education[]

Born in Eastbourne, East Sussex to Sierra Leone Creole parents, he attended London Metropolitan University and graduated with a BSc in chemistry followed by an MSc in astrophysics from Queen Mary University of London. For his PhD studies, he joined the Quantum Gravity & Gauge Group at the University of Aberdeen to work on a class of scalar-tensor theories that exhibit non-perturbative strong-field deviations away from general relativity in systems involving neutron stars.[1][5]

Career and research[]

Between 2004 and 2009, Davies worked as a Lecturer at the Clapham campus of Lambeth College and the Maida Vale campus of City of Westminster College in London. In 2013, he pursued a new direction as an international educator after the UCL Teaching Fellowship in Physics was awarded by the Centre for Languages and International Education.[6] He was subsequently posted to their overseas campus at Nazarbayev University in Nur-Sultan where he taught on the UCL University Preparatory Certificate program.[7] In 2017 he was appointed as Associate Professor of Mathematics in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Central Asia and is one of the inaugural faculty members at the campus in Khorog.[4]

Davies played a leading role in collaborative research on novel applications of scalar-tensor theory to the core-collapse supernova problem accounting for the apparent missing energy required to explain the observed powerful explosions. In cosmology, using the same framework, he developed a mechanism which allows the scalar field to be dynamically trapped, thus generating a scalar potential capable of driving primordial inflation.[3][4]

Membership in academic associations[]

Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
Institute of Physics
Royal Astronomical Society

Selected publications[]

  • Davies, T.; Wang, C.; Reid, J.; Mendonca, T.; Bingham, R.; Alawi, M.; St. J Murphy, A. (2016). "A consistent scalar-tensor cosmology for inflation, dark energy and the Hubble parameter". Physics Letters A. 380 (45): 3761–3765. arXiv:1309.4066. Bibcode:2016PhLA..380.3761W. doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2016.09.038. S2CID 55571922.
  • Davies, T.; Wang, C.; Hodson, A.; Mendonca, T.; Bingham, R.; St. J Murphy, A. (2013). "Dynamical trapping and relaxation of scalar gravitational fields". Physics Letters B. 726 (4–5): 791–794. arXiv:1301.0269. Bibcode:2013PhLB..726..791W. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.09.002. S2CID 35801277.
  • Davies, T.; Wang, C.; Mendonca, T.; Bingham, R. (2012). "Parametric instability in scalar gravitational fields". Modern Physics Letters A. 27 (24, 1230023): 1–5. arXiv:1309.4260. Bibcode:2012MPLA...2730023D. doi:10.1142/S0217732312300236. S2CID 67834351.

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Quadratic scalar-tensor gravity". British Library, Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Quantum Gravity & Gauge Group (c. 2011)". Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Trevor B. Davies". Google Scholar, Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  4. ^ a b c "ORCID ID". Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  5. ^ Trevor B. Davies at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ "UCL – University College London". CLIE, Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  7. ^ "UCL (UPC: Science and Engineering)". UPCSE, Retrieved 16 October 2021.
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