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| Mark Trodden | |
|---|---|
| Name | Mark Trodden |
| Birth date | 1968 |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Theoretical physics, Cosmology, Particle physics, Gravitation |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, Harvard University, Imperial College London, University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge, University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Stephen Hawking |
Mark Trodden is a British theoretical physicist known for work in cosmology, particle physics, and gravitation. He has held faculty positions at leading institutions and contributed to research on cosmic inflation, topological defects, modified gravity, and connections between condensed matter analogues and high-energy physics. His work intersects with prominent figures and institutions across theoretical physics and cosmology.
Trodden was born in the United Kingdom and educated at University of Cambridge and University of Oxford, where he studied mathematics and theoretical physics alongside contemporaries from Trinity College, Cambridge, St John's College, Oxford, and research groups associated with Cavendish Laboratory, DAMTP, and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He completed doctoral work under supervision within circles that included scholars from Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, and links to research groups at Perimeter Institute, Princeton University, and Institute for Advanced Study. During his graduate training he collaborated with visitors from California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University.
Trodden began his postdoctoral work at institutions connected with Harvard University, Princeton University, and Imperial College London, before joining the faculty at Syracuse University and later University of Pennsylvania. At Pennsylvania he served in departments associated with Perelman School of Medicine collaborations and interdisciplinary centers that liaise with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and CERN. His academic appointments have included visiting positions at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, and lecturing at Columbia University and New York University. Trodden has participated in programs organized by National Science Foundation, Royal Society, and international workshops hosted by Nordita and ICTP.
Trodden's research spans early-universe cosmology and particle-physics phenomenology with work on inflationary scenarios related to research from Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, and Paul Steinhardt, as well as studies of topological defects informed by results from Tom Kibble, Alexander Vilenkin, and Mark Hindmarsh. He has explored cosmic strings and domain walls in contexts referencing models developed at DESY, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. His contributions to modified gravity models relate to discussions by Clifford Will, Toby Wiseman, and Sean Carroll, and interface with observational programs at Planck Collaboration, WMAP, and Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Trodden has worked on connections between cosmology and particle physics theories inspired by Supersymmetry studies from Howard Georgi and Savas Dimopoulos, and on effective field theory techniques linked to approaches from Kenneth Wilson, Steven Weinberg, and John Preskill. He has engaged with cross-disciplinary analogues involving condensed matter systems studied by groups from Max Planck Society, Cambridge Nanoscience Centre, and IBM Research. Collaborations have involved researchers affiliated with Perimeter Institute, Institute for Advanced Study, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Trodden's recognitions include fellowships and awards from organizations such as the Royal Society, Simons Foundation, National Science Foundation, and honors connected with institutions like Royal Astronomical Society and American Physical Society. He has been an invited speaker at conferences organized by COSMO Conference, American Astronomical Society, International Conference on High Energy Physics, and symposia at Royal Institution and Aspen Center for Physics. He has received visiting appointments supported by grants from European Research Council, John Templeton Foundation, and national funding agencies including Science and Technology Facilities Council.
Trodden has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at University of Pennsylvania and Syracuse University covering material that intersects curricula from Cambridge University Press publications and lecture series used at Princeton University and Harvard University. His mentees have pursued careers at institutions including Caltech, MIT, Stanford University, Yale University, Columbia University, and national laboratories such as Fermilab and Brookhaven National Laboratory. He has supervised theses that drew on methods developed in collaborations with scholars from Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Institute, and Institute for Advanced Study and contributed to graduate programs linked to Scuola Normale Superiore and École Normale Supérieure.
- Trodden, M.; coauthors. Papers on cosmic inflation and topological defects cited alongside work by Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, Alex Vilenkin, and Tom Kibble in journals circulated through Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, and Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. - Trodden, M.; coauthors. Reviews on modified gravity and effective field theory that complement studies by Sean Carroll, Clifford Will, and Steven Weinberg in venues including Reviews of Modern Physics and Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. - Trodden, M.; coauthors. Interdisciplinary articles linking cosmology and condensed matter analogues with groups from Max Planck Society, Cambridge Nanoscience Centre, and IBM Research, appearing in Nature Physics and Science.