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, dark matter, gravitational microlensing, 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 the first second of our universe and about the nature of 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.