Welcome!

Hi, I’m Djuna, researcher in theoretical particle physics, astro-particle physics, and cosmology. I have worked on cosmic inflation, extended Higgs sectors, boson stars, phase transitions, and gravitational waves. I am also an enthusiastic science communicator, and committed to making academia more inclusive.

Gravitational Waves are my current obsession. More specifically: what can we learn about dark matter using gravitational wave phenomenology? As gravitational interactions are the defining property of dark particles, gravitational wave studies are fully complementary to the conventional (direct, indirect, and collider) probes of dark matter, which depend crucially on the hypothesis of electroweak or strong interactions with visible matter.

I also work on Early Universe Cosmology (cosmic inflation and reheating), Composite Higgs models and ElectroWeak Symmetry Breaking.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at TRIUMF, in Vancouver. My CV can be found here.

Outreach

My blog, the Quantum Messenger, can be found here. On the QM I hope to communicate my excitement about physics to everyone that would like to read about it. I started the blog as a graduate student, and post when I have inspiration and time to do so. I want my posts to be accessible to a broad audience, and if there is anything you would like me to write about, do let me know!

More generally, I love talking about topics in physics to people that share my enthusiasm for science. Here is an example of me talking about extra dimensions. On this page you can find some of my online musings.

Thanks for visiting!