Research Statement

My research focuses on transient astrophysics — the study of astrophysical phenomena that appear, evolve, and fade on short cosmic timescales.

Research Areas

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Supernovae

Stars that explode

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Tidal Disruption Events

Stars that get destroyed by black holes

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Transient surveys

Large projects to find transient phenomena

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Gravitational waves

Their electromagnetic counterparts

Current Projects

BlackGEM

An array of telescopes searching for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves and conducting wide-field transient surveys in the southern hemisphere.

Rubin LSST

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time conducted with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, transforming time-domain astronomy through scale and depth.

ENGRAVE

A large European collaboration using ESO facilities to follow up gravitational-wave events and their electromagnetic counterparts.