I am a DAWN fellow at the Cosmic Dawn Center. I received my PhD from the Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam in 2015, after which I moved to the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in Groningen and the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia as a postdoctoral researcher.
I am interested in the Epoch of Reionisation and investigate questions such as: Which physical processes define the properties of the first galaxies and their evolution? What can we learn about the first galaxies from their footprints in the ionisation state of the intergalactic medium? I seek to answer these questions with semi-numerical simulations, in particular with the Astraeus framework that I have developed over the last few years. I am also passionate about how higher-order statistical and topological analysis methods of the cosmic 21cm signal can constrain the ionising nature of the first galaxies.
More about my research and simulation tools, you’ll find here.