Assistant Astronomer, Steward Observatory | Assistant Professor, Astronomy | Member of the Graduate Faculty
<p>I am an assistant professor in the Astronomy Department and Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. My interest in astronomy comes from the wide range of physical processes occurring astronomical context. I focus on stellar physics, and in particular massive stars, binary evolution, and explosions. My interest include stellar kinematics runaway, walkaway" and hyper-velocity stars) core-collapse and pulsational) pair-instability supernovae, nuclear astrophysics, X-ray binaries, time-domain and gravitational-wave astronomy. I mainly use analytical and numerical simulations to understand massive star evolution, their explosions, and how they interact in binary systems. I use both detailed stellar structure and evolution models e.g. with In 2017, I spent one semester as KITP graduate fellow at UCSB, and I completed my PhD in 2019. After that I moved to New York city where I spent four years between the Center for Computational Astrophysics of the Flatiron Institute and Columbia University.