Cameron R D Bunney

Personal information

Nationality: British
Email address: cameron.bunney [[@]] nottingham.ac.uk
Personal website: cameronbunney.com
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3998-4716

Professional experience

October 2024—September 2025
EPSRC Doctoral Prize Follow (now called EPSRC Postdoctoral Pathway Fellow, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, UK
Group of Professor Silke Weinfurtner
Mentor Dr Anastasios Avgoustidis
Member of Quantum Simulators for Fundamental Physics (QSimFP) consortium

Education

October 2020—September 2024
PhD Mathematics
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK
Supervisors Professor Jorma Louko and Professor Silke Weinfurtner
Doctoral thesis Circular motion Unruh effect: in spacetime and in the laboratory

October 2016—September 2020
MMath (Batchelor’s and Master’s in Mathematics)
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK
Bachelor’s supervisor Professor Kirill Krasnov
Master’s supervisor Dr Alexander Schenkel
Master’s thesis Principal Bundles, Connections, and Gauge Theory

June 2020
Advanced Certificate in English Grammar
London Teacher Training College

Funding

October 2024—September 2025
Doctoral Prize Fellowship
Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (salary+£5000 research expenses)

October 2020—September 2024
PhD studentship
Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (tuition fees+stipend)

Academic awards

2020
First Martin Pluck Prize, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham
Awarded to graduate with highest grades over the four-year MMath programme

2019
Mathematics Prize, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham
Awarded to the 3rd-year student with highest grades in the year

2018
School Achievement Prize, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham
Awarded to the students with average grades of 85% and above

Publications and metrics

See the separate page for an up-to-date list of publications

Conferences, workshops, and seminars

2025

• 15th Annual Conference on Relativistic Quantum Information (North)
  • Contributing talk
  • University of Naples Federico II, Naples, June 2025
• RQI Seminar
  • Invited seminar
  • University of Waterloo, Canada, May 2025

2024

• Cosmology, Relativity, and Gravitation (CRAG) Seminar
  • Invited seminar
  • University of Sheffield, UK, December 2024
• 14th Annual Conference on Relativistic Quantum Information (North)
  • Contributing talk (available here)
  • Charles University, Prague, August 2024
• Algebraic Quantum Field Theory UK 8
  • Contributing talk
  • University of York, UK, June 2024
• QSimFP Quantum Black Holes seminar series
  • Invited seminar (available here)
  • (Online) University of Nottingham, UK, April 2024

2023

• 13th Annual Conference on Relativistic Quantum Information (North)
  • Contributing talk
  • Technical University of Crete, Greece, July 2023
• QSimFP Workshop
  • Invited talk (available here)
  • Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, June 2023
• Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes Workshop II
  • Poster presentation (available here)
  • Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada, Spain, May 2023
• Mathematical Physics Seminars
  • Invited seminar
  • University of York, UK, May 2023
• Nottingham Centre of Gravity
  • Invited talk
  • University of Nottingham, April 2023
• Blackbody Radiation Induced Effects and Phenomena Workshop
  • Invited talk
  • Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, Austria, February 2023

2022

• GR23: International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation
  • Contributing talk
  • (Online) Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, June 2022
• BritGrav22, British Gravity Conference
  • Contributing talk
  • University of Glasgow, UK, April 2022 (Online)
• Quantum Maths Seminar
  • Invited talk
  • University of Nottingham, UK, February 2022 (Online)
• 12th Annual Conference on Relativistic Quantum Information (North)
  • Contributing talk
  • (Online) University of Waterloo, Canada, September 2022

Contributions to research community

July 2025
Parallel Session Organiser, 24th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation

May 2025
Organiser, Unruh Workshop 2025, University of Nottingham

• Workshop on the Unruh effect and related phenomena
• Speakers include William G Unruh FRS, Gianluca Gregori, and Robert B Mann.

November 2023
Organiser, International Society for Relativistic Quantum Information (ISRQI) Circuit: Nottingham (in person and online: watch here)

Journal refereeing

From 2025
Reviewer, Physical Review A (American Physical Society)
Reviewer, Comptes Rendus Physique
Reviewer, Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society)
Reviewer, General Relativity and Gravitation (Springer)

From 2024
Reviewer, APL Quantum (AIP Publishing)

Outreach and public engagement

See the dedicated page for a list of my science communication articles and media interactions

April 2023
Organiser, Black Hole Discovery Day

Organiser in research group’s initiative to give 58 primary school pupils the opportunity to experience a day in an academic environment and to learn about and engage with the amazing physics of black holes.

Professional memberships

International Society for Quantum Gravity, Member (from October 2024)
London Mathematical Society, Member (from November 2021)
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Associate Member (from September 2021)
The Philological Society, Member (from September 2021)
Institute of Physics, Member (from September 2021)
International Society for Relativistic Quantum Information, Member (from January 2021)

Language skills

English (Native)
German (Professional fluency, A Level German and Stage 4 German, University of Nottingham~CEFR B2/C1)
Polish (Higher Intermediate)
French (Lower Intermediate)
Spanish (Lower Intermediate)
Japanese (Lower Intermediate, ULP Japanese Stage 1 and ULP Japanese Stage 2, Nottingham Trent University)
Italian (Basic)
Swedish (Basic)

Other:
Old Norse and Old English: Reading Old Norse and Reading Old English Master’s-level modules at University of Nottingham