doctoral_advisor website nationality fields workplaces name birth_date known_for doctoral_students article_title citizenship alma_mater
stephen hawking -lsb- http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/m.j.perry/ cambridge website -rsb- british physics damtp , university of cambridge malcolm john perry 1951 higher-dimensional supergravity gravity , quantum gravity , string theory , robert myers malcolm perry -lrb- physicist -rrb-
 british university of cambridge
malcolm perry -lrb- physicist -rrb-

malcolm john perry -lrb- born 13 november 1951 -rrb- is a theoretical physicist and professor of theoretical physics at the university of cambridge .
his research mainly concerns general relativity , supergravity and string theory .
perry was a graduate student at king 's college , cambridge , under the supervision of stephen hawking .
he obtained his doctorate in 1978 with a thesis on the quantum mechanics of black holes .
in these early years , he worked on several very influential papers on euclidean quantum gravity and black hole radiation with gary gibbons and stephen hawking .
after his graduate studies , he worked in princeton , new jersey from 1978 to 1986 .
with his student rob myers , he found the myers-perry metric , which describes the higher-dimensional generalization of the kerr metric .
he also started working on supergravity , string theory and kaluza -- klein theory .
in his final years in princeton he worked with curtis callan , emil martinec and daniel friedan to calculate the low-energy effective action for string theory .
in 1986 , he returned to cambridge , being elected a fellow of trinity college , cambridge -lsb- http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=10&conid=75] , where he has worked ever since .
in recent years , his attention has focused on generalised geometry and the doubled formalism for string theory , extending these ideas to m-theory in collaboration with david berman .
