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Staff

This is a growing list of people involved with CPT in various ways. Please contact us if you like to get involved.

People

Name	Role	Email address	Organisation(s)
Moritz Linkmann	Director	moritz.linkmann@ed.ac.uk	School of Mathematics
Anna Lisa Varri	Director	Anna.Varri@ed.ac.uk	School of Physics and Astronomy, School of Mathematics
Steve Tobias		S.Tobias@ed.ac.uk	School of Physics and Astronomy
Toby Adkins			School of Physics and Astronomy, School of Mathematics
Santiago Benavides			School of Mathematics
Tobias Blickhan			School of Mathematics
David Hosking			School of Physics and Astronomy, School of Mathematics
Stewart McWilliams			School of Physics and Astronomy
Alexander Morozov			School of Physics and Astronomy
Calum Skene			School of Physics and Astronomy
Francesco Tudisco			School of Mathematics
Geoff Vasil			School of Mathematics

This article was published on 2026-06-26

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