Dr Jude Bowyer

I'm a research associate, having completed a Ph.D. at Imperial under the supervision of Andrew Jaffe. My main scientific interests are the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), inflationary cosmology, and the structure of space-time.

During my Ph.D. I worked on software for polarization measurements of the CMB and methods to detect CMB anomalies, with particular regard to full-sky surveys like the Planck Surveyor.

The measurement of a non-zero polarization "B"-mode (a parity-odd pattern) in the CMB on large scales would provide compelling evidence for primordial gravitational waves - a generic prediction of the inflationary cosmology paradigm which has yet to be confirmed.

Meanwhile, topological defects such as cosmic strings could be observed from the presence of anomalies in the CMB temperature field via processes such as the Kaiser-Stebbins effect.