Researcher in Theoretical Physics
Doctor who?


As a Brittany-born Norman French
After realising that zookeeper was not my destiny, that heart surgeon would take too long to study, and that politics… well, anyway, I decided to do something involving maths. Maths were comforting and felt right, until the existential overdose when I realised that maybe I liked it mainly as a tool to answer ‘day-to-day’ questions. I had a great time doing Physics in a Grande Ecole in Paris, followed by a master’s in Cambridge. I started my academic research journey at the former, where I worked on reconstructing the quantum structure of crystals. In Cambridge, I started looking into theoretical physics, and eventually my own series of why? questions converged (or diverged?) towards asking how? about the whole thing (more commonly called the Universe).
In the past 4 years, I studied the early, fast-expanding universe by extending Einstein’s equations of General Relativity to fluctuations generated by the quantum vacuum. In this process, I also looked at the classicalisation of spacetime and have produced and run cutting-edge simulations of the inflating universe (and still do). Pen, paper and supercomputer is a lovely routine of mine.
I am currently transiting from my PhD in Cambridge
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Email: yl844 at cam.ac.uk
Office: Center for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, United Kingdom.