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Departmental homepageAdrian received his BSc and MPhil degrees from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and his PhD from King’s College London. He subsequently held postdoctoral research appointments at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Cambridge, where he was a Herchel Smith Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Before becoming a Fellow of St John’s, he was a College Research Associate of the College.
Adrian supervises students in applied mathematics subjects in the Mathematical Tripos and will serve as Director of Studies in Applied Mathematics from Lent Term 2027.
Adrian’s research uses gravitational-wave detections to investigate fundamental physics and the nature of black holes. In particular, he develops theoretical, numerical and statistical methods to test general relativity in the strong-field regime, search for dark matter, and measure the expansion rate of the Universe.
Adrian Ka-Wai Chung, and Nicolás Yunes. "Black hole ringdown spectroscopy of curvature-coupled scalar and pseudoscalar fields", Physical Review D 114 (2026): L021505. https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/2ctd-mgb6
Yiqi Xie, Adrian Ka-Wai Chung, Thomas P. Sotiriou, and Nicolás Yunes. “Bayesian Search of Massive Scalar Fields from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Binaries.” Physical Review Letters 134 (2025): 191402. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.191402.
Bryce Cousins, Kristen Schumacher, Adrian Ka-Wai Chung, Colm Talbot, Thomas Callister, Daniel E. Holz, Nicolás Yunes. "Stochastic Siren: Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background Measurements of the Hubble Constant" Physical Review Letters 136 (2026): 101003. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/4lzh-bm7y
