astrophysics

My field of research is black hole astrophysics: where physics, astronomy, statistics and high-performance computing collide. Out of this collision, I hope to get profound insights about the nature of gravity and the role of black holes in the cosmos.

I work at the interface between theory and observations, employing advanced computational simulations to model black hole accretion and their outflows, and studying their observed electromagnetic-ray emission.

I use many tools in my research:

• Scientific computing
• Statistical analysis
• High-performance computing and fluid dynamics simulations on GPUs
• Machine learning and predictive models

Key discoveries (no astrophysics background required)

Go here for a summary of my most significant scientific discoveries written in an accessible way.

Numerical simulations of black hole accretion and outflows

• Winds and jets; feedback on the host galaxy
• Radiative processes in the hot plasma near event horizons
• Accelerated methods using NVIDIA GPUs (CUDA)
• Ergomagnetosphere

Gamma-ray astronomy

• Low-luminosity AGNs
• Intermediate-mass black holes
• Observatories: Fermi LAT, CTA

Supermassive binary black holes and electromagnetic counterparts

Machine learning

• Applied methods including deep learning
• Neural operators
• Transformers