👋 Hi!
I’m a postdoc (or associate researcher) in Prof. Otto’s Hannuksela’s GW group.
📧 Email: paulmartens at cuhk.edu.hk
📍 Office Rm G29 G/F, Dep. of Physics, CUHK, Sha Tin, NT, Hong Kong
Research interests
Modified gravity theories
Deviations of general relativity enables probing the nature of gravity, and possibly answer to deep fundamental puzzles such as the cosmological constant problem or quantum gravity.
Gravitational waves
The recent discovery of gravitational waves (GWs) has opened an new fantastic testbed for a theory of gravity. In particular, gravitational lensing of GWs may dive even deeper into e.g. polarization of GWs.
Cosmology
Another perspective on gravity is provided by cosmology, which interfaces a wide variety of disciplines, such as particle physics, thermodynamics, and of course gravity again.
Education
- 2023-now
Postdoc at the Chinese University of Hong-Kong (CUHK). - 2020-2023
PhD at Kyoto University, under the supervision of Prof. Shinji Mukohyama, in the Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics (YITP), leading to the thesis Challenging mysteries of the Universe with gravity beyond general relativity. - 2014-2016
Master in physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) with a specialization in mathematics and a thesis in plasma physics, under the supervision of Prof. Ivo Furno. - 2010-2014
Bachelor in physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
Publications
Please refer to my INSPIRE page for an up-to-date list (and that one).