Professor Elizabeth Winstanley

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Elizabeth Winstanley
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e.winstanley@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 3796

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Professor Elizabeth Winstanley
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH
Profile

I was born in Wigan, Lancashire and educated at Abbey Gate College, near Chester. I completed my MA in Mathematics and DPhil in Theoretical Physics at St. Hugh's College, Oxford.  Prior to moving to Sheffield in 2000, I was Fellow and Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Oriel College, Oxford. 

Research interests

Black holes, quantum field theory in curved space-time, general relativity

Summary of Research Project(s)

My current research focusses on semiclassical gravity, particularly (but not exclusively) as applied to black hole spacetimes. I am interested in the definition of quantum states on black hole space-times for a variety of quantum fields, and the computation of the renormalized stress-energy tensor for these states. My recent research also studies the backreaction of quantum fields on the space-time geometry, for both black holes and anti-de Sitter backgrounds. 

Publications

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Journal articles

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Books

  • Calmet X, Carr B & Winstanley E (2014) Quantum Black Holes. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Calmet X, Carr B & Winstanley E (2014) Preface. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Calmet X, Carr B & Winstanley E (2014) Introduction. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

Book chapters

Conference proceedings

  • Winstanley E (2018) A Menagerie of Hairy Black Holes (pp 39-46) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ponglertsakul S, Dolan S & Winstanley E (2018) Einstein-Charged Scalar Field Theory: Black Hole Solutions and Their Stability (pp 69-74) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ambrus VE & Winstanley E (2015) Massless Rotating Fermions Inside a Cylinder. AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1694. Timisoara, Romania View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ponglertsakul S, Dolan S & Winstanley E (2015) Black hole solutions in Einstein-charged scalar field theory. Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 92 (pp 124047) RIS download Bibtex download
  • AMBRUŞ VE & WINSTANLEY E (2015) ROTATING FERMIONS. The Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (pp 1965-1967) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ambrus VE & Winstanley E (2014) Dirac fermions on an anti-de Sitter background. AIP Conf. Proc., Vol. 1634 (pp 40) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Winstanley E (2013) Kermions RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ambruş VE & Winstanley E (2013) Fermions on adS RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hewitt M & Winstanley E (2013) Vacuum polarisation on the brane for a higher dimensional black hole spacetime RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kent C & Winstanley E (2013) Scalar field Hadamard renormalisation in $AdS_{n}$. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Marcel Grossman Meeting on General Relativity, pp. 1959-1961 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nicolini P, Mureika J, Spallucci E, Winstanley E & Bleicher M (2013) Production and evaporation of Planck scale black holes at the LHC RIS download Bibtex download
  • Winstanley E (2013) Black holes, TeV-scale gravity and the LHC RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bleicher M, Nicolini P, Sprenger M & Winstanley E (2011) Micro black holes in the laboratory. International Journal of Modern Physics E(Supplement 2) (pp 7-7) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Winstanley E (2007) Hawking radiation from rotating brane black holes RIS download Bibtex download
  • Winstanley E (2004) Classical and thermodynamical aspects of black holes with conformally coupled scalar field hair RIS download Bibtex download
  • Winstanley E (2002) Is there classical super-radiance on Kerr-Newman-anti-de Sitter black holes?. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A, Vol. 17(20) (pp 2782-2782) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Thompson JC & Winstanley E () Quantum-corrected three-dimensional AdS space-time. Journal of Physics : Conference Series. Glasgow, UK, 14 July 2025 - 14 July 2025. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ambrus VE & Winstanley E () Quantum corrections in thermal states of fermions on anti-de Sitter space-time. AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1916(020005) View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download

Datasets

Preprints

Research group

Cosmology, Relativity and Gravitation

Grants

Past grants, as Principal Investigator

 
Higher dimensional scalar hairy black holesNuffield

Past grants, as Coinvestigator

 
STFC Consortium: Fundamental Physics - Lancaster-Manchester-SheffieldSTFC
STFC Consolidated Grant RenewalSTFC
Particle Physics: From the Early Universe to the Large Hadron ColliderSTFC
Testing New Physics with Data from Particle Physics and CosmologyPPARC

Prizes and Awards

Erskine Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (2016); Australian Institute of Physics Women in Physics Lecturer (2010)

Teaching interests

My main teaching interests are:

  • Differential equations
  • Mathematical physics
  • Career development skills
  • Teaching mathematics to engineering students
  • Supervising MMath projects
Teaching activities

Over the course of my career, I have been involving in teaching a wide range of applied mathematics and theoretical physics modules, as well as mathematical methods to physicists and engineers and skills modules for mathematics students. I have also been a member of the London Mathematical Society's education committee, and the Joint Mathematical Council of the United Kingdom. 

Professional activities and memberships

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy; Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications; Fellow of the Institute of Physics; Member of the International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation, the London Mathematical Society, the European Mathematical Society and the European Physical Society.