Research

My research interests involve exploring the connections between fundamental physics and the structure and evolution of the universe and objects in it. In this era of multi-messenger astrophysics, theories and models involving massive neutrinos and other Beyond-Standard-Model physics (dark matter, dark energy, etc.) are being increasingly confronted with ever-improving constraints from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), structure formation, nucleosynthesis, compact objects, gravitational waves, laboratory experiments, and a multitude of other observables. I find this cat-and-mouse game quite intriguing.

Over the years, a topic of particular interest to me has been to understand the intricacies behind the involvement of neutrinos in the dynamics and nucleosynthesis in compact objects, high energy astrophysical processes, as well as the early universe — for example, calculations of neutrino flavor evolution in environments with high neutrino densities, such as core-collapse supernovae.

Follow these links for a list of my publications, as well as recent scientific presentations.