I grew up in London, and did my undergraduate studies there at Imperial College.
I completed my masters project in the Astroparticle group of the University of Hamburg.
Since July 2017 I've moved into high-energy neutrino physics and multi-messenger astronomy.
I did my PhD at DESY Zeuthen, supervised by
Anna Franckowiak.
Now I'm a postdoc at Caltech working with
Mansi M. Kasliwal
I'm a member of two international scientific collaborations:
ZTF is an optical telescope on Mt Palomar, CA, USA. ZTF images the entire northern sky every two nights, and hunts for newly-detected objects (transients) that appear between observations. ZTF has already discovered hundreds of supernovae, seventeen Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs), and many other exciting transients.
WINTER is an upcoming infra-red telescope also being built on Mt Palomar. WINTER will be able to study the dynamic infra-red sky, and understand the properties of 'red' transients. With WINTER we will hunt for electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves and neutrinos, and make new discoveries in a relatively unexplored wavelength.
My research interests include:
High-energy Neutrino Alerts: We don't know exactly where high-energy neutrinos come from, but by observing the neutrino arrival directions with telescopes, we might be able to find out. With ZTF, I have led many of our neutrino follow-up campaigns. We successfully identified two TDEs as probable neutrino sources.
Gravitational-Wave (GW) + Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) follow-up: Observations of the first Binary Neutron-Star merger from LIGO revealed a spectacular kilonova AT2017gfo, detected with a variety of telescopes. With ZTF we search for these kilonovae from the direction of GW/GRB triggers.
I am also enthusiastic about Science Communication and Outreach. I won the Zeuthen Science Slam (2018) and the first DESY-wide Science Slam (2019). I've also supported the annual International Cosmic Day and IceCube Masterclass outreach events for students.