Dr. Pope's research interests include:theoretical high-energy particle physics;
unification of the fundamental interactions in nature;
general relativity, quantum gravity, supergravity; superstring theories; conformal field theory; extended higher-spin theories; applications of differential geometry and topology in physics.
Personal Text:Christopher Pope received his BA degree at the University of Cambridge in 1975, MA in 1979, and his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1980. He was a Research Fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge from 1979 to 1982. After postdoctoral positions at Imperial College London he moved to USC in 1987, and then to Texas A&M in 1988. He is a Distinguished Professor, the holder of the Stephen Hawking Chair in Fundamental Physics, and the Director of the George P. & Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute of Fundamental Physics. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Cambridge.
