Faculty

Research interests

My main research focus is numerical simulations of structure formation in the Universe. Starting from our understanding of the very early universe, I perform simulations of a wide range of scales: how dark matter collapses and forms the seeds of galaxies, how the large-scale filamentary network of galaxies arises from the counteracting forces of the expansion of the universe and the pull of gravity; how the largest collapsed objects in the universe - clusters of hundreds and thousands of galaxies - form and evolve and what we can learn about our universe from those most extreme objects; and how galaxies form as part of the large-scale structure that feeds them with gas. I am also interested in developing numerical simulation techniques that allow us to answer questions about the universe both more precisely and more efficiently.

Awards:

• Starting grant of the European Research Council (2015)
• Ambizione fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (2011)

Career trajectory

• University Professor, UCA/OCA, Nice, France (since 2015)
• SNSF Ambizione Research Fellow, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2012-2015)
• KIPAC Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University/SLAC, USA (2009-2012)
• Graduate Researcher, ETH ZUrich, Switzerland (2005-2009)

Publications

• Click to see a list of my publications on ADS
• Click to see a list of my papers on arXiv (with access to preprint PDFs)
• Click to see my Google Scholar profile