About me
I am a doctoral researcher interested in numerical relativity and cosmology under the supervision of Christophe Ringeval and Sebastien Clesse. I am affiliated to UCLouvian - CURL, located at the beautiful town of Louvain-la-Neuve, in Belgium.
In my work I performe numerical simulations to study different topics of the early universe. During the first year of my PhD, I studied the initial conditions problem for cosmic inflation (see paper and post). Currently my reaserch focuses on multi-field inflation, the reheating and also primordial black hole formation. I am a developer of GRChombo, the numerical relativity code I use for my simulations.
In the past, I enjoyed working in other interdisciplinary areas:
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From 2016-2018, I have worked for the INM-6 at the Juelich Research Center for neuroscience research in Germany. I helped with the modeling and analysis of electrophysiological data from macaque visual cortices in relation to the animal’s eye movements during free-viewing. Together with Pedro Maldonado in U. Chile, we are finalising a manuscript that should be posted soon.
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Earlier, in 2012, I enjoyed an internship grant to work in Tim Byrnes Lab for quantum computing, previously located at the NII in Tokyo (currenlty at NYU-Shanghai). Together we wrote a paper on producing steady-state negative Wigner function light within exciton-polariton systems. Such methodologies could be used in the context of continuous-variables in quantum computing.
Finally, you can find some of my rants in Twitter, my research and codes in GitHub, or challenge me to a chess game in Chess.com.
Research
I have a wide range of interdisciplinary research interests. These reflect some of my latest publications:
- Cosmology: Early universe, inflation; primordial black holes.
- Gravitation: Scalar-tensor theories; compact objects & topological defects.
- Numerical relativity: Hydro-GR codes, strong gravity regimes, applications to cosmology.
- Systems Neuroscience: Neural coding; vision; electrophysiology;
- Computational Neuroscience: Neural networks codes; statistical and data analysis;
- Condensed-matter physics: Exciton-polaritons, quantum open systems.
Notes
- Thesis (soon)
Current Teaching
Past Teaching
Collaborations
Collaborators
- Sebastien Clesse (ULB/CURL)
- Christophe Ringeval (UCLouvain-CURL)
- Julien Lesgourgues (RWTH-Aachen)
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Tim Byrnes (NYU Shanghai)
- Christian Keup (Juelich)
- Junji Ito (Juelich)
- Sonja Gruen (Juelich)
- Pedro Maldonado (Univ. Chile)