** Photo by Christoffer Hals, dScience, UiO
Academic interests
I have a keen interest in simulating early Universe phase transitions and to obtain the resulting imprints on early Universe backgrounds. To this end, I mostly specialize in simulating Topological Defects (cosmic strings, domain walls) and First Order phase transitions. Via a combination of semi-analytical modeling and simulations, I seek to improve our current understanding of the expected signals on the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background. For strings, I have also delved into extracting relic Dark matter abundances of axions. The large-scale simulations I often use require extreme High-Performance Computing resources, of which I specialize in using thousands of Graphics Processing Units.
Awards & Fellowships
- MSCA CO-FUND DSTrain Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Springer Thesis Award, 2022
- PRACE Best Poster Award, EuroHPC Summit week 2021
- FCT Doctoral Fellowship, Grant number SFRH/BD/130445/2017
Employment
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo: September 2025 - Ongoing
- Postdoctoral Researcher at the Helsinki Institute Physics, University of Helsinki: September 2022 - September 2025
- PhD Researcher at Centre for Astronomy/Astrophysics of the University of Porto, University of Porto: January 2017 - May 2022