Main Research Fields

Currently my research interests focus on Gravitational Waves and Black Holes. I'm especially interested in Intermediate-mass black holes which will be prime targets for LISA. 

My past scientific research focused on stellar kinematics around massive black holes. For this I worked with observations from Integral Field Units (IFUs) as well as computational techniques such as N-body simulations. I began by studying the centres of massive Galactic globular clusters to search for kinematic signatures of intermediate-mass black holes and investigated the lower end of the M–sigma relation observed for supermassive black holes and their host galaxies. The aim was to understand the origin and evolution of this relation by further constraining it at both the low-mass and high-mass ends. In addition, I combined observational data with simulations and gained experience with advanced simulation codes such as NBODY6/7 and AMUSE.