Research
My research was on binary neutron-star mergers: numerical-relativity simulations of the merger and the matter it throws out, and the electromagnetic signals that follow, from kilonovae to the radio and X-ray afterglows of gamma-ray bursts.
Software
PyBlastAfterglow
A C++ code with a Python interface for modelling light curves, spectra and sky maps of gamma-ray-burst and kilonova afterglows. It solves the hydrodynamics of shock fronts and the evolution of electron distributions, and computes synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton emission.
bns_ppr_tools
Post-processing for binary neutron-star merger simulations run with the WhiskyTHC general-relativistic hydrodynamics code: ejecta, gravitational waves and 3D profiles.
First-author papers
Multi-physics framework for fast modeling of gamma-ray burst afterglows
Synthetic radio images of structured GRB and kilonova afterglows
Modeling kilonova afterglows: effects of the thermal electron population and interaction with GRB outflows
Mapping dynamical ejecta and disk masses from numerical relativity simulations of neutron star mergers
Dynamical ejecta synchrotron emission as possible contributor to the changing behaviour of GRB170817A
Numerical relativity simulations of the neutron star merger GW170817: long-term remnant evolutions, winds, remnant disks, and nucleosynthesis
Spiral-wave wind for the blue kilonova
Co-authored papers are listed on ORCID.
Talks
DESY
Weizmann Institute of Science
ECT* conference: Modeling of electromagnetic counterparts of binary neutron star mergers
ISAPP PhD School on Gravitational Waves: BNS mergers: EM counterparts & nucleosynthesis
RTG conference: Binary neutron star mergers: ejecta, nucleosynthesis and electromagnetic counterparts
ECT* conference, University of Trento: Neutron star mergers & electromagnetic counterparts
MICRA Workshop, TPI: Spiral-wave wind for the blue kilonova
RTG conference: Numerical relativity informed kilonova model
Teaching and service
Member and service, Computational Relativity (CoRe) collaboration
Member, German Physical Society (DPG)
Lecturer and tutor, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Computational Physics II; project practicum: numerical solutions to the wave equation
Tutor, University of Bonn
Stars and Stellar Evolution; Nucleosynthesis