Philippe Brax
theoretical physicist
ABOUT ME
I am working on some of the most puzzling aspects of cosmology like the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe in the last few billion years of its existence. This requires combining a lot of theoretical aspects, e.g. from cosmology to quantum field theory. I have been working in this field for quite a few years although I still dabble in other aspects of theoretical physics from time to time. I cannot always resist designing supersymmetric models... I obtained my PhD from the Pierre et Marie Curie University and my habilitation from Paris Sud. I have also been lucky enough to be a post doctoral fellow at both DAMTP Cambridge and CERN. I belong to the "beyond the standard model" research group at IPhT Saclay.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dark Energy
Background cosmology and large scale structure. Laboratory tests.
1994-1996
Damtp University of Cambridge UK
Research assistant
Modified Gravity
Screening mechanisms and bigravity
Inflation
....and cosmic strings. Possibly supersymmetric or string inspired.
Extra Dimensions
Brane world and other extra dimensional models
1999-2001
CERN Theory Division
Fellow
2003
Universite Paris SUD
Habilitation a diriger des recherches
Dark Matter
Feebly Interacting Massive Particle and scalar DM