Selected publications
Reviews
RB Mann, S Murk, DR Terno
Black holes and their horizons in semiclassical and modified theories of gravity
Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 31, 2230015 (2022) [arXiv:2112.06515]
Articles
S Murk, DR Terno, R Vadapalli
Gravity-induced birefringence in spherically symmetric spacetimes
Phys. Rev. D 111, 044001 (2025) [arXiv:2408.02729]
[Code: github.com/s-murk/2408.02729]
A Hahn, S Murk, S Singh, GK Brennen
Categorical quantum volume operator
Phys. Rev. D 110, 086013 (2024) [arXiv:2406.02111]
S Murk, I Soranidis
Light rings and causality for nonsingular ultracompact objects sourced by nonlinear electrodynamics
Phys. Rev. D 110, 044064 (2024) [arXiv:2406.07957]
[Code: https://github.com/s-murk/2406.07957]
M Hotta, S Murk
Probability vector representation of the Schrödinger equation and Leggett-Garg-type experiments
Phys. Rev. A 109, 062224 (2024) [arXiv:2312.16281]
[Code: https://github.com/s-murk/2312.16281; Also featured as Staff Pick in the Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/3104397]
S Murk, I Soranidis
Kinematic and energy properties of dynamical regular black holes
Phys. Rev. D 108, 124007 (2023) [arXiv:2309.06002]
S Murk, I Soranidis
Regular black holes and the first law of black hole mechanics
Phys. Rev. D 108, 044002 (2023) [arXiv:2304.05421]
S Murk
Nomen non est omen: Why it is too soon to identify ultra-compact objects as black holes
Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 32, 2342012 (2023) [arXiv:2210.03750]
S Murk
Physical black holes in fourth-order gravity
Phys. Rev. D 105, 044051 (2022) [arXiv:2110.14973]
[Code: github.com/s-murk/2110.14973]
Awards
New South Wales State Winner (National Nominee), Bragg Gold Medal for Excellence in Physics ("most outstanding PhD thesis in physics by a student from an Australian University"), Australian Institute of Physics (2023)
Selected Honorable Mention, Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition (2023)
People's Choice Award for Best Talk, Sydney Quantum Academy Conference (2020)
Postgraduate Excellence in Physics Award, Australian Institute of Physics (2020)
Future STEM Leaders Transformation Award, Future STEM Leaders Program (2018)
Funding — Grants and Scholarships
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology SHINKA Grant (2023)
Sydney Quantum Academy PhD Scholarship (2020-2022)
Macquarie University SRC Postgraduate Conference Grant (2019)
Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Grant (2019)
Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute Travel Grant (2018)
International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (2018-2022)
European Union Erasmus+ Scholarship (2016-2017)
