I am a theoretical and computational astrophysicist working at Imperial College London in the Astrophysics Group, and currently hold a Royal Society Career Development Fellowship. Previously, I was an independent Chalmers Initiative on Cosmic Origins Postdoctoral Fellow at Chalmers University of Technology. My primary research interests include accretion disk physics, planet formation and extra-solar planets. I develop theory and numerical simulations to describe into a coherent picture how the gas and dust content of the planet-forming environments form, evolve and interact to eventually become fully-fledged planets. By directly testing the predictions inferred from the outcome of my models against the plethora of observational data now available for planet-forming environments and extra-solar planets, I hope to build a complete and predictive theory for planet formation, and significantly contribute in interpreting these observations.

I completed my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, through the International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics at the University of Heidelberg, where I was investigating the first steps of planet formation under the supervision of Prof. Paola Pinilla. Since then, I have developed a unique expertise on the detailed modeling of the microphysics of the planet-forming environments and its critical role on the fundamental processes that shape them. Specifically, I have built the first numerical framework for these environments that couples the long-term evolution of their gas and dust content with sophisticated nonideal magnetohydrodynamic calculations to understand how, when and where the building blocks of planets are formed. Prior to my PhD, I obtained my two-year-long MSc in Physics with Extended Research at Imperial College London, where I was studying the atmospheric escape of extra-solar planets under the supervision of Dr. James E. Owen. I was undertaking this MSc as an equivalent to the final year of my curriculum at the leading French Grande École Institut d’Optique Graduate School Paris-Saclay, where I was completing a Diplôme d'Ingénieur in Physics. 

On a more sporty note, I love pushing my limits and dedicate most of my free time bouldering, climbing, and "gymming".