About
Dr. Eleni-Alexandra Kontou is currently an AEP lecturer in theoretical physics at King's College London. She was awarded a Phd in Physics from Tufts University at 2015. After successfully applying for a Horizon 2020 EU grant she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow at the department of mathematics at the University of York from 2017 to 2019. From 2020 until 2022 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam. She has also worked as a visiting assistant professor at Bard College and the College of the Holy Cross. Her research interests cover a variety of topics in quantum field theory in curved spacetime, mathematical physics, and cosmology but most of her work focuses on energy conditions, quantum inequalities, and their applications.
Eleni has developed and taught several undergraduate and post-graduate courses from introductory physics to general relativity. She is interested in methods of active learning as well as in increasing diversity in STEM fields by encouraging the participation of women and minorities.
Current CV (4/4/2023)
List of publications from INSPIRE and Google Scholar
Email: eleni.kontou@kcl.ac.uk