Tom Lawrence received an MPhys from the University of Exeter in 1997. He received a PhD from the University of Southampton in 2002, where he studied non-linear realisations and Lie algebras under Prof. Ken J. Barnes. He is currently a research scholar at the Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship. His principal area of research is Kaluza-Klein-type models of spacetime compactification which can be described by fully covariant constraints. He is exploring many aspects of such models, including: how elements of curvature can be manifested as gauge fields; how spinor fields may be incorporated into such models and their coupling to gauge fields and to gravity; matter field configurations and their quantum numbers; how quantum features may arise from such classical field theories.