About Me

I am a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Sandro Tacchella. Before starting my PhD in 2022, I was an MPhys student at the University of Surrey. Most of my work involves the use of numerical simulations of galaxies, such as the THESAN-ZOOM simulations.

My broad scientific interest is understanding the evolution of galaxies and black holes across cosmic time, although most of my current research is focused on the early Universe. I am particularly interested in bursty star formation at high redshift, and the impacts that it has on galaxy sizes, metallicities and chemical abundances, and the growth of black holes.

I am also interested in better understanding and improving the tracers we use to study galaxies, such as continuum and line emission. My primary approach to this is to fully forward model the emission of simulated galaxies, and to this end, I am a developer of the Cosmic Lyman-alpha Transfer (COLT) Monte Carlo radiative transfer code.

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