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I am a PhD student at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, working on the physics of black holes and gravitational waves. My research centres on quasinormal modes, the characteristic oscillations a black hole emits as it settles after a merger, studied through high-accuracy numerical relativity simulations and Bayesian inference.
More broadly, my interests span gravitational-wave observation, and strong-field tests of general relativity. Recent work extends the analysis beyond quasinormal modes to power-law tails and prompt response in the post-merger signal. I expect to submit my PhD thesis in March 2027.
Full details are in my CV.
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Invited and contributed talks on black hole ringdown and numerical relativity.
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Teaching
Supervising Cambridge undergraduates in quantum mechanics.
During my PhD I've also audited a range of Part III courses including General Relativity, Black Holes, Cosmology, Bayesian Inference, Quantum Field Theory, and Advanced Quantum Field Theory.
Small-group supervisions for Cambridge's Part II Mathematical Tripos, covering Hilbert spaces and operators, the harmonic oscillator, angular momentum and its addition, identical particles, and perturbation theory.
Press
Yahoo News
Coverage of research led by Richard Dyer at Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy, where a new Bayesian method pulls faint overtones and nonlinear modes out of gravitational-wave signals, sharpening our tests of general relativity.
Read the feature →Varsity · Cambridge Student Newspaper
Student journalist Dhruv Shenai speaks to PhD researchers at Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy — including Richard Dyer — about the black hole research reshaping our view of the universe, from gravitational-wave ringdowns to Event Horizon Telescope imaging.
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