About Me

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Queen Mary, University of London studying early universe cosmology. My current interests include brane cosmology and cosmological perturbation theory.

My CV is available in short format as a PDF file: Ian Huston – CV

My recent publications are listed in the Inspire database and on the arXiv and include:

• Calculating Non-adiabatic Pressure Perturbations during Multi-field Inflation
  Ian Huston, Adam Christopherson
  e-Print: arXiv:1111.6919 [astro-ph.CO]
• Quantifying the behaviour of curvature perturbations during inflation
  Ellie Nalson, Adam Christopherson, Ian Huston, Karim Malik
  e-Print: arXiv:1111.6940 [astro-ph.CO]
• Second Order Perturbations During Inflation Beyond Slow-roll
  Ian Huston, Karim A. Malik
  Published in JCAP 1110:029,2011.
  e-Print: arXiv:1103.0912 [astro-ph.CO]
• An update on single field models of inflation in light of WMAP7
  Laila Alabidi, Ian Huston
  Published in JCAP 1008:037,2010.
  e-Print: arXiv:1004.4794 [astro-ph.CO]
• Numerical calculation of second order perturbations
  Ian Huston, Karim A. Malik
  Published in JCAP 0909:019,2008.
  e-Print: arXiv:0907.2917 [astro-ph.CO]
• Gravitational Wave Constraints on Multi-Brane Inflation.
  Ian Huston, James E. Lidsey, Steven Thomas, John Ward
  Published in JCAP 0805:016,2008.
  e-Print: arXiv:0802.0398 [hep-th]
• Gravitational wave constraints on Dirac-Born-Infeld inflation.
  James E. Lidsey, Ian Huston
  Published in JCAP 0707:002,2007.
  e-Print: arXiv:0705.0240 [hep-th]

The code I created to produce some of the published results listed above is available as the open source Pyflation module.

My PhD thesis, “Constraining Inflationary Scenarios with Braneworld Models and Second Order Cosmological Perturbations”, is available from the arXiv server.

I organise the London Relativity and Cosmology Seminar Series hosted by QMUL. I am a tutor for undergraduate courses in the School of Mathematical Sciences and am a supervisor for MSc projects.

I have planned a few different meetings including the first GradCATS meeting for PhD students and the first String and Cosmology Student Conference between French and British students. I also helped to arrange the December 2008 meeting of the UK Cosmo group.

I have a few blog posts about graduate physics and tools for science.

Originally from Dublin, Ireland, I have lived in London for the past few years. I enjoy sailing and windsurfing whenever I can.