Research

My full list of publications can be found here.

Astrophysics

My research ranges from unravelling the genesis of our Galaxy and mapping its amount of mass and dark matter, to developing generative and machine-learning models to tackle and digest vast amounts of multi-flavoured survey data.

Statistics and Machine Learning

I have recently become interested in developing simple yet powerful statistical and machine-learning models to analyse and exploit big survey data. For example, I am currently leading the efforts in developing a generative model to infer the properties of millions of stars using survey data (Lux)

Big data

I am a big fan of combining different flavours of astronomical data. For example, I like working with spectroscopic data from the APOGEE survey and astrometric data from the Gaia mission to learn new things about our Galaxy. Thus, I spend a lot of time analysing/modelling big data from large-scale surveys of the Milky Way. I also like comparing these data to big data from cosmological numerical simulations (e.g., FIRE, EAGLE, E-MOSAICS)