Research interests:
My research interests are in String Theory and Quantum Field Theory,
specifically centred around applications of holography and gauge theory/gravity dualities.
In recent years
I have been interested in thermal properties of
N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory,
its phase structure
at finite density, Polyakov loops and Z(N) domain walls, at both
weak and strong coupling, probing the
similarities and differences between the weakly interacting
gauge theory and its strong coupling dual -
the AdS-black holes. I have also been involved in the study of vortex strings and solitons
in supersymmetric
gauge theories
using both quasiclassical techniques and the string/gravity dual
descriptions.
