I joined the department in 2021 as a Guest Teacher, and currently teach on several courses from first to third year. 

I studied for my undergraduate degree from 2011-15 at University College Durham, where I read Mathematics. I continued at Durham for a PhD in Mathematical Physics, graduating in 2020. My research interests are in the use of Clifford Algebras to study Quantum Gravity. This has two main advantages— first, it lets us directly represent spacetime as an algebra; and second, it allows many of the techniques of complex analysis to be extended to higher dimensions via a branch of mathematics called Clifford analysis.  My recent work has explored how the Maxwell and Dirac equations can be viewed as higher dimensional analogues of the Cauchy-Riemann equations, and I am currently investigating ways to view spacetime itself as a quantum phase space. 

Alongside this, I have interests in the Theology of Science, and in the Philosophy of Physics. In the latter context, I was a visiting researcher in the CPNSS at the LSE in the summer of 2023. In my spare time I enjoy painting and going on walks.

Publications:

Smith, D.J, Robson.C, and Farrow, J.A. Notes on the dynamics of noncommutative U(2) and commutative SU(3) instantons, Phys. Rev. D 106, 045001 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.045001

Robson, C. Relational Quantum Mechanics and Contextuality. Found Phys 54, 54 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-024-00788-0

Robson, C.J. Self-Dual Maxwell Fields from Clifford Analysis. Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras 35, 7 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00006-024-01368-1