David Yallup

Research Associate · Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge
Research Scientist · PolyChord Ltd.

Appointments

2021–
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge — Handley-lab
2022–
Research Associate, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
2021–
Research Scientist, PolyChord Ltd. — Bayesian methods for industrial applications
2019–20
Postdoctoral Research Associate, UCL — statistical and ML inference for particle phenomenology
2013–15
Business Consultant, Simcorp Ltd. — software and consultancy for the asset management industry

Grants & Awards

2026
UKRI AIRR Gateway Award — real-time gravitational wave inference
2026
Google Academic Research Award (TPU Builders Programme)
2024
Kavli Foundation workshop grant — Cosmological Inference in High Dimensions
2023
Research Associateship, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
2019
UCL HEP Thesis Prize
2016
Marie Curie Early Career Researcher Award

Teaching & Supervision

2025
Part II Statistical Physics, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge — 4 groups of 2 students
2022
Part II Relativity, Natural Sciences Tripos, Cambridge — 4 groups of 3 students
2021–
Part III project supervisor, Cambridge — primary supervisor for 5 MSc projects
2016–19
UCL MSci co-supervision with Prof. J. Butterworth — 1 MSc and 8 MSci students

Education

2015–19
PhD Particle Physics, UCL — Constraining new physics with fiducial LHC measurements, supervised by Prof. J. Butterworth
2014–15
MSc Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Durham University
2009–13
MSci Natural Sciences, Maths and Physics, Durham University