Welcome
I am a
Robinson Postdoctoral Fellow in Theoretical Astrophysics at the
Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR) group at the
California Institute of Technology.
Before my time at Caltech, I spend ~three years as a student at the
Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
where I obtained my PhD with Bernard Schutz and Luciano Rezzolla.
On these pages, you will find information about my professional life, scientific work, projects, and collaborations.
Research Interests
I am interested in the modeling of gravitationally radiating sources such as coalescing compact binaries and collapsing stellar cores using numerical relativity.
This work involves extending our understanding of the physics of these sources, their dynamics, and their emitted gravitational wave signature.
A prime goal is the construction of template banks to be used in gravitational wave observatories such as LIGO, Virgo and GEO600.
I develop and extend simulations based on Einstein's theory of general relativity that run on massively parallel computers.
A particular focus of my research has been on gravitational-wave extraction techniques and binary black hole merger physics.
I am interested in the following topics:
- Numerical relativity.
- Binary black hole physics.
- Stellar core collapse and long gamma-ray bursts.
- Gravitational-wave emission of binary black hole mergers and stellar core collapse.
- Multiblock techniques in 3D simulations of binary black hole mergers and stellar core collapse.
- Cauchy-characteristic extraction and matching.
- High-order null-cone evolutions of Einstein's equations.
- Phenomenological gravitational-wave template bank construction using PN and EOB.
- The NRAR collaboration.
Fun projects:
- Development of a parallel simulation framework using static polymorphism and template metaprogramming.
- Dynamic distributed scheduling.
- Tesselation techniques.
- Meshfree particle methods.
Publications
A complete list of my publications can be found at
SAO/NASA ADS,
or is available as
pdf.
My PhD thesis is available
here.
