Mehul Depala studied at Imperial College London to complete the MSc in the Quantum Fields and Fundament Forces and completed a BSc in Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary. He completed a Bachelor’s thesis on Kaluza-Klein theory, an early attempt at unifying gravity and electromagnetism through the use of small extra dimensions.
His Master’s dissertation project studied various novel models of dark matter whose abundance is locked in during a period of inflation in the early universe. This project involved calculating density perturbations from the dark matter and comparing to experimental data from CMB.
Mehul’s PhD project involves analysing data from Run III at Atlas at the LHC. Particularly, searching for Physics beyond the Standard Model in the form of Leptoquarks.