Raphael PicardResearch StudentEmail: r.h.j.picard@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: G. O. Jones Building, Room 502ProfileResearchPerformanceProfileProject Title: Constraining early universe models using small scale data. Supervisors: Dr Karim Malik & Dr David Mulryne Content: Inflation predicts a spectrum of fluctuations which act as seeds for structure formation and which are detectable as temperature inhomogeneities in the CMB (the first light). It also predicts a background of gravitational waves which could give more insight into the last stages of inflation. Since these waves weakly interact with matter they have been propagating freely since their creation. I work on predicting the spectrum of these gravitational waves which are model dependent. ResearchResearch Interests:Cosmological Perturbation Theory, Inflation & Gravitational Waves.Performance