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Nov 2022 - Now - Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Offered by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, Belgium
Nov 2019 - 2022 - Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Offered by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, Belgium
2017 - 2019 - Postdoctoral Associate
CIERA, Northwestern University, USA
2012 - 2017 - PhD in Astrophysics, approved with summa cum laude
Argelander Institute for Astronomy, University of Bonn, Germany
PhD supervisor: Prof. Dr. N. Langer
2010 - 2012 - Master of Science in Astrophysics, approved with maximum distinction
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
2005 - 2010 - Bachelor of Science in Astronomy, approved with maximum distinction
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
2022 - Now - FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship
Competitive 3-year personal fellowship offered by the by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
2019 - 2022 - FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship
Competitive 3-year personal fellowship offered by the by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
2019 - Ambizione fellowship (declined)
4-year fellowship offered by the Swiss National Science Foundation
2018 - Promotionspreis of the Bonn university
University-wide prize to the three best Ph.D. theses of the year
2018 - Promotionspreis of the Astronomische Gesellschaft
Prize awarded by the German astronomical society to the best theses of the year
09/2021 - present - Annachiara Picco
Supervisor of Ph.D. student, Institute of Astronomy – KU Leuven
"Binary Evolution in the context of the Einstein Telescope"
09/2020 - present - Matthias Fabry
Supervisor of Ph.D. student, Institute of Astronomy – KU Leuven
"Physics of massive overcontact binaries"
09/2020 – 06/2021 - Stijn van Leuven
Supervisor of MSc. thesis, Institute of Astronomy – KU Leuven
"Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernovae with Massive Hydrogen Envelopes from Stellar Mergers"
10/2017 – 05/2019 - Ying Qin
PhD student from the University of Geneva, supervised by Prof. Georges Meynet and Prof. Anastasios Fragkos
Dr. Qin visited Northwestern University for a long period during which I acted as his supervisor on his work on the formation of high mass X-ray binaries.
01/2017 – 08/2018 - Niharika Sravan
PhD student from CIERA, Northwestern University, supervised by Prof. Vassiliki Kalogera Dr. Sravan’s thesis studied the progenitors of stripped envelope supernovae. I supervised most of her work during the last years of her PhD.
2022 - Lecturer of the 6 ECTS MSc obliged course "Stellar Structure and Evolution"
KU Leuven, Belgium
2021 - Lecturer: Gave three lectures on gravitational wave astrophysics in the context of the course "High-Energy Astrophysics"
KU Leuven, Belgium
2021 - Lecturer: Gave two lectures of the 6 ECTS obliged MSc course "Stellar Structure and Evolution"
KU Leuven, Belgium
2021 - Teaching assistant: "Data Analysis in Astronomy and Physics"
KU Leuven, Belgium
2018 - Lecturer at Workshop: Lecturer for two full days at the "Simulating stars - from theory to observation" workshop
University of the Chinese Academy of Science, China
2017 - Lecturer at Workshop: Lecturer for a full day at the "MESA summer school"
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
2014 - Teaching assistant: "Stars and Stellar Evolution"
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bonn, Germany
2006 - 2012 - Teaching assistant:
During my undergrad and master studies I acted as a teaching assistant for multiple courses including "Classical Mechanics", "Introduction to Programming", "Linear Algebra", "Geometry", "Differential Equations", "Electricity and Magnetism", "Order-of-magnitude physics" and "Stellar Astrophysics"
Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
08/2022 - Organizer of the "MESA Summer School 2022"
07/2021 - SOC co-chair of the online Symposium "Stars on the pathway to become gravitational- wave sources", which was part of the 2021 meeting of the European Astronomical Society
06/2018 - Organizer of the summer school "Simulating stars - from theory to observation", Beijing, China
2014-present - MESA project
The Modules for experiments in Astrophysics (MESA) software instrument is the most widely used tool to model stellar evolution. This is an open source project of which I am one of the main developers, as well as the lead developer of its binary evolution module and one of 4 members of its technical council. I also act as curator of the public repository where results and input files to reproduce published work is posted by users.
2020-present - XShootU
International collaboration working on the data aquired by the Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards (ULLYSES) program of the Hubble space telescope together with complementary data from the XSHOOTER instrument of the VLT. I am the head of its working group on stellar evolution (WG5).
For talks listed below, name of the contribution is given first followed by the event. Copies of the slides for all talks are provided, although I usually design them to work in conjunction with me actually speaking. So things can be lost if looking at them as stand-alone documents (a few have online recordings though).
2022/03 - The role of accretion in the formation of gravitational wave sources,
UCSB
2021/11 - Binary evolution and GW source formation,
The ISSI Team meeting 2021:Multiwavelength view on massive stars in the era of multimessenger astronomy, Bern, virtual
2020/02 - From two stars to two merging compact objects,
"The Evolution of Massive Stars and Formation of Compact Stars: from the Cradle to the Grave", Tokyo
2019/05 - What can gravitational waves tell us about star formation (and viceversa),
Star Formation WS, Bern
2018/07 - Modelling rotation in massive stars,
Frontiers of the Physics of Massive Stars, Ensenada
2017/10 - Neutron Star & Black Hole Astrophysics,
Early Results from GW Searches and Electromagnetic Counterparts, Louisiana
2017/08 - Single vs Binary star evolution,
Third BRITE-Constellation Science Conference, Quebec
2021/09 - From binary stars to merging binary black holes,
University of Auckland (virtual)
2020/03 - Probing stellar interiors with gravitational waves,
Department of Astrophysics, Radboud University (virtual)
2018/02 - Pair instability supernovae in very close binaries,
University of Wisconsin Madison
2017/02 - The many faces of very massive binaries in tight orbits,
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
2017/01 - Identifying the progenitors of LIGO's first black holes,
University of Oxford
2021/09 - Forming binary black holes through mass transfer or common envelope evolution,
Caltech (J. Fuller's group), virtual
2021/03 - Forming binary black holes through mass transfer or common envelope evolution,
Universitat Potsdam, virtual
2021/03 - Forming binary black holes through mass transfer or common envelope evolution,
SEBA users meeting, virtual
2021/03 - How do binaries form merging binary black holes,
MPA Garching, virtual
2017/12 - The formation of merging BBHs from field binary evolution,
Instituto de Astrofisica, Universidad Catolica de Chile
2017/03 - Convective boundaries, semiconvection, overshooting and rejuvenation,
UCSB (small presentation during program The Mysteries and Inner Workings of Massive Stars)
2016/06 - Homogeneous evolution in massive binaries: BH+BH mergers as aLIGO sources and ultraluminous X-ray binaries,
University of Oxford
2016/02 - Exploring a new route towards merging binary black holes,
Nicolas Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw
2016/02 - Exploring a new route towards merging binary black holes, Instituto de Astrofisica, Universidad Catolica de Chile
2015/06 - The interplay of internal mixing, tides and mass transfer in massive binaries,
CIERA, Northwestern University
2015/01 - Stellar evolution with MESA: Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics,
Instituto de Astrofisica, Universidad Catolica de Chile
2014/12 - Grids of massive binaries with MESA: The interplay of tides, winds and mixing,
Anton Pannekoek Instituut, University of Amsterdam
2013/12 - Modelling the evolution of massive binary stars,
Instituto de Astrofisica, Universidad Catolica de Chile
2020/10 - The progenitors of compact object mergers,
VFTS meeting 2020 (virtual)
2020/07 - The impact of rotation on the black hole upper mass-gap,
EAS 2020 (virtual)
2018/09 - Ultraluminous X-ray sources in very massive binaries,
ISSI-Bern meeting on ULXs, Bern
2018/08 - A new approach to binary population synthesis, High-mass X-ray binaries:
Illuminating the passage from massive binaries to merging compact objects, Viena
2017/03 - BH-BH mergers from rotational mixing in tight binaries,
Phenomena, Physics, and Puzzles Of Massive Stars and their Explosive Outcomes, UCSB. Also recorded online!
2016/09 - A new route towards merging massive black holes,
IAU Symposium 324: New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics, Ljubljana
2016/08 - Homogeneous evolution of overcontact massive binaries resulting in BH+BH mergers,
Astrophysics from LIGO’s First Black Holes, UCSB
2016/07 - The many faces of very massive binaries in tight orbits,
"Binary stars in Cambridge 2016", Cambridge
2016/07 - The many faces of very massive binaries in tight orbits,
EWASS 2016, Athens
2015/06 - Uncertainties in mixing processes in the evolution of massive binaries, Lorentz Center Workshop "Impact of Massive Binaries Throughout the Universe", Leiden
2015/03 - Modelling populations of LMC binaries,
VFTS meeting 2015, University of Sheffield
2012/06 - Magnetic field evolution in neutron star crusts,
Compstar: the physics and astrophysics of compact stars, Tahiti