Hello there! I am a theoretical cosmologist with main interests in the very early Universe and questions pertaining to the origins of the cosmos and the conditions during approximately the first second after the Big Bang (energy scalesi≳i1iMeV). I am especially interested in magnetic fields and gravitational waves in cosmological settings.
Currently, I am a visiting researcher at the University of Geneva, where I am working with Prof. Ruth Durrer on the generation of magnetic fields during inflation with a focus on generating helical fields in axion inflationary models, and with Prof. Chiara Caprini on the generation of vorticity and stochastic gravitational waves during cosmological (first-order) phase transitions. I am also working with Prof. Jennifer Schober in Bonn on the macroscopic effects of the chiral anomaly on primordial magnetic fields and vorticity. More details about my current research can be found here, my publications can be found here, and my CV can be found here.
I obtained my PhD in 2023 from Princeton University, for which I worked with Prof. Ilya Dodin to study the collective effects of GWs interacting with gases and plasmas. My thesis can be found here. We developed a formalism to capture the backreaction effects of the matter (neutral gases as well as plasmas) and electromagnetic waves on GWs and analytically derived the wave equation for the collective modes of the metric and the matter.
Here is my tongue-in-cheek bio written for our PhD program website, that tries to outline my winding journey to theoretical physics.