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Gerard Watts is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London, affiliated with the Department of Mathematics and the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences. He earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1990 under Peter Goddard. His research focuses on two-dimensional quantum field theory, particularly conformal field theory (CFT) and integrable systems. He has held postdoctoral positions at Durham, Montreal, and Paris, and joined King’s in 1996 via an EPSRC fellowship.
Watts has organized numerous workshops, including the UK Integrable and Conformal Field Theory meetings. His grants include funding from EPSRC, the EU, Royal Society, and London Mathematical Society. He currently supervises two PhD students and has mentored five others previously. His work explores defects in CFT, boundary flows, and modular symmetry, with applications to non-equilibrium physics. He is a member of the Centre for Non-Equilibrium Science (CNES) and has contributed to advancing understanding of integrable models and their connections to string theory.
