Native name Helen Fay Dowker | Name Fay Dowker | |
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Institutions Imperial College LondonQMULUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraCaltechInstitute for Quantum ComputingFermilabUniversity of Cambridge Notable awards PhD (1991)Tyson Medal (1987) | ||
Fay dowker spacetime atoms and the unity of physics perimeter public lecture
(Helen) Fay Dowker (; born September 9, 1965 in Manchester, Lancashire) is a British Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.
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- Fay dowker spacetime atoms and the unity of physics perimeter public lecture
- Fay dowker are there premonitions in quantum measure theory
- Education
- Career and research
- Personal life
- References
Fay dowker are there premonitions in quantum measure theory
Education
As a student, she was interested in wormholes and quantum cosmology. Having studied the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge, Dowker was awarded the Tyson Medal in 1987 and completed her Doctor of Philosophy for research on spacetime wormholes supervised by Stephen Hawking in 1990.
Career and research
Dowker completed postdoctoral research at Fermilab, at the University of California, Santa Barbara and also the California Institute of Technology.
She is currently a Professor of Theoretical Physics and a member of the Theoretical Physics Group at Imperial College London and an Affiliate of the Institute for Quantum Computing. She conducts research in a number of areas of theoretical physics including quantum gravity and causal set theory.
Dowker was previously a Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.
Personal life
Dowker is the daughter of physicist Stuart Dowker, who worked at the University of Manchester. She was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for The Life Scientific in 2017.