My research focus has been strongly influenced by my deep interest in the geometric and topological aspects of fundamental theories of physical phenomena. This interest led me naturally towards one of the most influential discoveries in string theory in the last 20 years, the AdS/CFT correspondence (or holographic duality). This fascinating conjecture in its simplest form relates the strongly coupled regime of QFT to classical general relativity. Problems in the QFT which may simply be intractable can be answered directly by studying the associated gravitational problem. In particular, my previous research has concerned itself with the study of time dependent states of the QFT which can be studied by solving for the time evolution of the associated geometry. Properties of these QFT states my be studied by various probes, such as two point functions and entanglement entropy, which also have gravitational avatars. My current interests include:

• The inclusion of gauge field dynamics in time dependent states of strongly coupled QFT for applications in HIC.
• Entanglement and measures of correlations in QFT for both applications in condensed matter physics and for a deeper understanding of the holographic duality.
• And much more