Astrophysicist
Postdoc
I'm a postdoc in the CAST group at the University Observatory Munich and part of the excellence cluster Origins. My research interests are astrophysics on galactic-scales and models beyond ΛCDM. I prefer to work numerically, including all the way from new ideas for numerical schemes to the analysis of simulation data.
My research focuses on simulations and the phenomenology of dark matter with non-gravitational self-interactions as well as dark matter-baryon scattering. I employ N-body simulations to study how such interactions can alter the distribution of dark matter and baryons. In particular, I have developed a numerical scheme that allowed – for the first time – to simulate very anisotropic cross-sections motivated by merging galaxy clusters. Moreover, I wrote the first N-body simulation paper on dark matter-baryon interactions employing a novel scheme that I had developed. For more details, see my publications and the Darkium webpage.
I am a postdoc in the CAST group with Prof. K. Dolag, working on simulations of dark matter interacting with itself and baryons.
I did my doctorate on simulations of self-interacting dark matter at the Hamburg Observatory and was part of the excellence cluster Quantum Universe. Supervisors: Prof. M. Brüggen and Dr. K. Schmidt-Hoberg.
Master thesis with Dr. A. Pillepich at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.
Bachelor thesis with Prof. H. Klahr at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.
Worked as a master's student on angular-dependent self-interactions
Worked as a master's student on mergers of galaxy clusters with dark matter self-interactions and intracluster medium
Works as a master's student on the evolution of self-interacting dark matter haloes
Works as a master's student on galaxies in galaxy clusters
Master thesis on Simulation of SIDM with angular-velocity-dependent cross sections