Ph.D. students

• Asta Heinesen, 2016-2019,
  Inhomogeneous cosmology and observational implications

• Yong-Zhuang Li, 2014-2018,
  On the Lagrangian perturbation theory of structure formation in general relativity

• Nezihe Uzun, 2012-2016,
  An investigation of quasilocal systems in general relativity

• M. Ahsan Nazer, 2010-2014,
  Cosmic microwave background anisotropies in an inhomogeneous universe

• Peter R. Smale, 2008-2012,
  Observations and inhomogeneity in cosmology

• Ben M. Leith, 2003-2007,
  Scalar fields and alternatives in cosmology and black holes

• Alex B. Nielsen, 2003-2007,
  Black hole horizons and black hole thermodynamics

• Benedict M.N. Carter, 2002-2006,
  Higher dimensional gravity, black holes and brane worlds

• S.C. Cindy Ng, 1998-2001,
  Cosmological models with quintessence: Dynamical properties and observational constraints

M.Sc. students

• Finn C. O'Keeffe, 2022-2023,
  Differential expansion and ray tracing in Szekeres models

• Morag A. Hills, 2021-2022,
  Ray tracing and averaging in Szekeres cosmological models

• Rudeep Gaur, 2020-2021,
  Perturbation theory and averages in inhomogeneous cosmologies

• Lawrence H. Dam, 2015-2016,
  Inhomogeneous cosmological models and the cosmic microwave background

• James H. McKay, 2014-2015,
  The cosmological rest frame

• James A.G. Duley, 2010-2011,
  Average cosmic evolution in a lumpy universe

Honours project students

• Tegan Gould, 2024,
  Rotating black holes in Kaluza-Klein theory
  MSc student at U Canterbury from 2025

• Zachary Lane, 2022,
  Testing signatures of inhomogeneity in cosmology with supernovae
  Current PhD student at U Canterbury

• Alex Goodenbour, 2021,
  Comparing fluid and kinetic matter descriptions in general relativity
  MSc, U Canterbury; MASt, U Cambridge; Current DPhil student at U Oxford

• Michael Williams, 2020,
  Post-Newtonian cosmology
  Current PhD student at U Canterbury

• Rudeep Gaur, 2019,
  Implanting soft hairs on Kaluza-Klein black holes
  MSc, U Canterbury; current PhD student at Victoria U Wellington

• Joseph A. Wilson, 2019,
  Asymptotic structures and symmetries of FLRW universes
  current student at Victoria U Wellington

• Lawrence H. Dam, 2014,
  Shape dynamics and Birkhoff's theorem
  MSc, U Canterbury; PhD, U Sydney; Postdoc, U Geneva

• Hadleigh R.D. Frost, 2014,
  Hamiltonian gauge systems: With application to general relativity and shape dynamics
  DPhil, U Oxford (Rhodes scholar); Junior Research Fellow, U Oxford

• James H. McKay, 2013,
  Quasilocal energy and conservation laws in general relativity
  MSc, U Canterbury; PhD, Imperial College

• James J. Bonifacio, 2012,
  Brownian motion in curved spacetimes
  DPhil, U Oxford (Rhodes scholar); Postdocs: Case Western U, U Cambridge

• Hun Young (Hayden) Lee, 2011,
  Cosmological background and perturbations
  CASM, U Cambridge; PhD, U Cambridge; Postdoc, Harvard U; Faculty, U Pennsylvania

• Catherine L. Neill, 2011,
  General relativistic galaxy models

• Kane C. O'Donnell, 2011,
  Optical properties of the Lindquist-Wheeler cosmology
  CASM, U Cambridge (Woolf Fisher scholar)

• William T. Frost, 2010,
  Apparent and average acceleration of the universe
  PhD, Harvard U (Frank Knox scholar)

• Hui (Ray) Yao, 2006,
  Averaging the inhomogeneous universe
  CASM, U Cambridge

• T. Tam Nguyen Phan, 2005,
  Cosmology as geodesic motion
  PhD, U Chicago

• Peter J. Adshead, 2004,
  Scalar fields as a candidate for dark matter
  PhD, Yale U; Postdocs: U Chicago, U Cambridge; Faculty, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Angus J. Prain, 2004,
  The optical geometry
  MSc, U Waterloo; PhD SISSA, Trieste; Postdocs: Bishop's University, Heriot-Watt University

• Madeleine L. Smith, 2003,
  The exact uncertainty principle on a curved space
  MSc, Australian National U; PhD, U Canterbury

• Michael I. Cohen, 2002,
  Quantum mechanical bound states on black hole backgrounds
  PhD, Caltech

• Simon C. Stone, 2002,
  Quintessential inflation
  MSA, Australian National University

• Emily J. Hackett-Jones, 1999,
  Optical reference geometry in four and five dimensions
  CASM, U Cambridge; PhD, U Durham; Postdocs: U Edinburgh, U Melbourne

• Nectarios Kontoleon, 1996,
  Operator ordering problem of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation
  PhD, U Adelaide; Postdoc: CSIRO, Melbourne

• Ian J. Grivell, 1994,
  Primordial nucleosynthesis
  PhD, U Sussex; Postdoc: Imperial College London