Fay Dowker

Helen Fay Dowker (; born 9 September 1965) is a British physicist who is a current professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London. Education Dowker attended Manchester High School for Girls. As a student, she was interested in wormholes and quantum cosmology. Having studied the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge, Dowker was awarded the Tyson Medal in 1987 and completed her Doctor of Philosophy for research on spacetime wormholes supervised by Stephen Hawking in 1990. Career and research Dowker completed postdoctoral research at Fermilab, at the University of California, Santa Barbara and also the California Institute of Technology. Until 2003, Dowker was a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.