About me
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 mostly
on stellar astrophysics, and in particular massive stars, binary
evolution, and stellar explosions. My research 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 MESA, and rapid population synthesis
(e.g., with binary c or COSMIC). I also simulate the light coming from
explosions (e.g., with SNEC) and I am learning to run multidimensional
hydrodynamic simulations (with ATHENA++).
