About me

I am leading an independent research group at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Leibniz University Hannover under the Emmy Noether Programme.

My main research interests include theories of gravity and physics of the early universe. I am known for my contributions to the indirect generation of gravitational waves from primordial fluctuations. I refereed articles for Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Physical Review D, European Physical Journal C, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, International Journal of Modern Physics D and Physics of the Dark Universe. I am a topic editor for the Universe Journal. Also, I co-coordinated courses of General Relativity and of Cosmology at master level.

Previously, I was a Marie-Curie Fellini Fellow in the cosmology group at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare INFN, Sezione di Padova, under the supervision of Sabino Matarrese. My work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 754496.

I did my doctor course at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics YITP, Kyoto University, under the supervision of Misao Sasaki. My first postdoc was at the Institute for Theoretical Physics ITP, Heidelberg university, under the supervision of Christof Wetterich.

My work is supported by the DFG’s Emmy Noether Programme grant no DO 2574 / 1-1 with project title “Probing the primordial universe with Gravitational Waves”.