Justin L. Ripley

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Current and past positions

I am currently a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

From 2020-2022 I was a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Applied Math and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.

In 2020, I obtained my PhD from the Department of Physics, Princeton University, under the supervision of Frans Pretorius. A pdf of my thesis, General Relativity and its classical modification in gravitational collapse, can be found here.

My CV (pdf)

Contact: ripley [at] illinois [dot] edu

Research interests and publications

Broadly speaking my research has been in gravitational physics/astrophysics and computational physics. I have done work in numerical relativity, black hole ringdown, modified gravity, neutron star physics, and relativistic fluids. Much of my work has involved using a computer in one way or another, and I have spent some time developing new algorithms for use in numerical relativity.

A description of some of my work can be found here.

A complete record of my publications can be accessed below.

Software

My GitHub account. I have also worked with a couple of numerical relativity codes:

Slides and recordings from a few talks

Physics notes

Projects and notes on statistics

Students

Interested in doing physics research? This website provides a general overview of the PhD and masters program in physics at UIUC.