About Me

Peter Dunsby is currently a full professor of gravitation and cosmology in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He has published extensively in theoretical cosmology, teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and works closely with his graduate students and postdocs. He is regularly invited to lecture at local and international meetings and has a proven track record in fund raising and in the management of large research grants.

In 2003 he secured a bid to host the National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme (NASSP) at the University of Cape Town and was subsequently appointed director of this programme. Over the past eleven years NASSP has made a major contribution to human resource development in Astronomy and the Space Science in Southern Africa.

He was the co-director of the Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre at UCT until 2016 and also serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Modern Physics (the link is https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijmpd)

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Selected Publications

Cosmological dynamics of R**n gravity

Oct 2004 - 18 pages Class.Quant.Grav. 22 (2005) 4839-4868
Sante Carloni (Cape Town U., Dept. Math. & INFN, Naples), Peter K.S. Dunsby (Cape Town U., Dept. Math. & South African Astron. Observ.), Salvatore Capozziello, Antonio Troisi (Salerno U. & INFN, Naples)
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The Evolution of density perturbations in f(R) gravity

Jul 2007 - 21 pages Phys.Rev. D77 (2008) 024024
S. Carloni (Cape Town U., Dept. Math.), P.K.S. Dunsby (Cape Town U., Dept. Math. & South African Astron. Observ.), A. Troisi (Naples U. & INFN, Naples)
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Cosmological perturbations and the physical meaning of gauge invariant variables

1992 - 20 pages Astrophys.J. 395 (1992) 34-53
Marco Bruni (SISSA, Trieste), Peter K.S. Dunsby (Queen Mary, U. of London), George F.R. Ellis (SISSA, Trieste & Cape Town U.)
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Some remarks on the dynamical systems approach to fourth order gravity

Jul 2007 - 21 pages, Phys.Rev. D77 (2008) 024024
S. Carloni (Cape Town U., Dept. Math.), P.K.S. Dunsby (Cape Town U., Dept. Math. & South African Astron. Observ.), A. Troisi (Naples U. & INFN, Naples)
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