Positions held
| 2021 | Assistant Professor IPPP, Durham University, United Kingdommaternity leave: August 2022 – January 2023 August 2024 – January 2025 |
| 2018-2021 | Research associate TRIUMF, Canada |
| 2017 – 2018 | Research associate Dartmouth College, United States |
| 2013 – 2017 | PhD Theoretical Particle Physics University of Sussex, United Kingdom Advisor: Prof. Veronica Sanz |
Refereed journal articles and preprints
To be found here.
Panel membership
- Member of STFC’s Particle Astrophysics Advisory Panel, 2022-current.
- STFC gravitational waves review panel, 2024
- Ernest Rutherford Fellowship panel member, 2022-current.
Conference/graduate school organization
- PASCOS, July 2025
- Pollica workshop on Gravitational Waves, September 2024
- Dark Matter Beyond the Weak Scale, IPPP Duhram, March 2024
- What’s the matter?, Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, August/September 2022
- YETI (graduate school), July 2022
- UK HEP forum, November 2021
- Planck 2021, June 2021
- Inaugural LISA Canada workshop, April 2021
- A Rainbow of Dark Sectors, Aspen Centre for Phyiscs, March 2021
- TRIUMF Theory workshops, 2019, 2020
- HEP tools bootcamp, Fall 2017
Teaching
- Invisibles school 2023: Lectures on Phase Transitions in the early Universe
- NExT school 2022: Lectures on Early Universe Cosmology
- TASI 2022: Lectures on Baryogenesis, Gravitational Waves, and Phase Transitions
- Fall 2021: Introduction to Field Theory, part of the M.Sc. in Particles, Strings and Cosmology
- Summer 2019: Gravitational Waves (lecture 1 and lecture 2), at the TRISEP summer school in Vancouver
Talks
I love giving research and outreach talks. Some of the slides for my talks are available online. Here are some examples:
- Gravitational microlensing with (extended) dark matter structures, Spanish and Portuguese Relativity Meeting, July 2024
- Future prospects for Gravitational waves, Corfu summer institute on Future Accelerators, May 2024
- On pair-instability supernovae and dark matter, PLANCK conference, May 2023
- Rethinking false vacuum decay, SLAC theory seminar (virtual, June 2021)
- Black hole archeology using gravitational waves, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (virtual, April 2021)
- New insights into light particles and supernovae, Light Dark World conference (virtual, December 2020)
- Microlensing with extended dark matter structures, University of Toronto THEP seminar (virtual, September 2020)
- Review talk on Exotic Compact Objects, Gravitational Waves for Fundamental Physics workshop in Amsterdam (November 2019)
- Reheating confronts Leptogenesis and Strong Baryogenesis, Baryon and Lepton number Violation (BLV) conference in Madrid (October 2019)
- Gravitational Wave Probes of Dark Matter, Next Frontiers in the Search for Dark Matter conference at the Galileo Galilei Institute in Florence (September 2019)
For a complete list of recent research talks, please contact me.
Popular articles + misc media
- Microlensing is revealing a hidden Universe, Supercluster, July 2024
- Could a heart of darkness power pair-instability supernovae?, astrobytes, July 2024
- Unveiling the Universe, CERN70 event, January 2024
- Women in physics roundtable, December 2022
- TRIUMF Saturday Morning Lectures, Heavy Black Holes and Light Subatomic Particles, March 2021
- KICP podcast hosted by Dr. Jose Maria Ezquiaga, audio only/audio + video
- Symmetry Magazine, Physics at tiniest scale could explain ‘impossible’ black holes, December 2020
- Dark matter day panel discussion, October 2020
- New Scientist, Minder ongelijkheid in de wetenschap is niet zo simpel als we zouden willen (op-ed in Dutch, in print), October 2020
- CERN newsletter, Beyond the Standard Model Explanations of GW190521, September 2020
- New Scientist, Zwaartekrachtsgolven van ‘te zware’ zwarte gaten waargenomen (in Dutch), September 2020
- Kijk, Hoe axionen het lot van sterren bepaalden (in Dutch), August 2020
- University Affairs, How a group of physicists started a protest movement in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, July 2020
- Particles for Justice, Strike for Black Lives, June 2020 (selected press coverage here)
- Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver, Art and Science in conversation, January 2020
- Physics Today, Ann Elizabeth Nelson (obituary), December 2019
- Gizmodo, Is there a fifth dimension? June 2019
- Wired, Physicists condemn sexism through ‘Particles of Justice’, October 2018
- De Volkskrant, Theoretisch natuurkundigen schrijven antiseksismebrief (in Dutch), October 2018
- Particles of Justice, High Energy Physics Community Statement, October 2018
- Science magazine, book review of Lost in Math (Sabine Hossenfelder), June 2018
- The Conversation (theconversation.com), Understanding the hidden dimensions of modern physics through the arts, (republished several times, including on phys.org), September 2015
- The Quantum Messenger, personal outreach blog, July 2015 – present