Selected talks.
Nov 2, 2026 — TAC Seminar, Theoretical Astrophysics Center, UC Berkeley — “Two in one: gravitational-wave and electromagnetic signals from dense stellar environments” (upcoming)
Oct 9, 2026 — Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University — “Dancing with the Black Holes: building heavy black holes in dense star clusters” (blackboard talk)
Aug 25, 2026 — Stony Brook University — “From Small to Large: Black Hole Growth Across Ten Orders of Magnitude”
Jun 1, 2026 — Ph.D. Thesis Defense, Johns Hopkins University — “Understanding the formation of massive black holes with a rapid cluster simulation code”
Apr 27, 2026 — LISA Monday Call — “Seeding SMBHs with Nuclear Star Clusters: What LISA will see”
Mar 4, 2026 — Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari — “Understanding the formation of GW events with Rapster”
Feb 2, 2026 — Heidelberg University — “Connecting stellar-mass and supermassive black holes in the multimessenger era”
Dec 18, 2025 — Gran Sasso Science Institute — “Origins of Massive Black Hole Seeds: A multimessenger & data-driven approach”
Dec 2, 2025 — University of Delaware — “Unveiling the mystery of massive black hole seeds with gravitational and electromagnetic waves”
Jun 25, 2025 — Sapienza Università di Roma — “Merging black holes in star clusters”
Jun 23, 2025 — Gran Sasso Science Institute — “Dynamical formation of compact object binaries”
May 15, 2025 — Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris — “Massive black holes from rapid accretion and mergers in nuclear star clusters”
Apr 16, 2025 — University of Mississippi — “Merging black holes in star clusters: eccentricity as a dynamical signature”
Jul 19, 2024 — University of Milano-Bicocca — “Probing massive black holes with gravitational waves”
Mar 8, 2024 — Columbia University — “Learning about star clusters from heavy black hole mergers”
Jan 11, 2024 — Aristotle University of Thessaloniki — “Probing the growth of massive black holes with gravitational waves”
Feb 10, 2023 — CIERA, Northwestern University — “Rapster: a rapid cluster evolution code and applications”
Nov 16, 2021 — Oakland University — “Dynamical binary black hole mergers”
Apr 14, 2021 — National Technical University of Athens — “Black Holes Merging with Low Mass Gap Objects inside Globular Clusters”
Oct 2026 — 2026 NHFP Symposium, Cambridge, MA — “One Environment, Two Signals: Linking Gravitational Waves and Micro-TDEs in Dense Star Clusters”
Jun 2026 — 16th International LISA Symposium, College Park, MD — “Stochastic Low-Frequency Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Object Captures by Massive Black Holes”
Jun 2026 — Little Red Dots 2026 (online) — invited talk
Aug 2024 — MODEST-24, Warsaw — “Star cluster properties from intermediate-mass black hole mergers”
Jun 2024 — ATHEXIS, Athens — “Probing massive black holes with gravitational waves” (invited)
Apr 2024 — APS April Meeting, Sacramento — “Star cluster properties from intermediate-mass black hole mergers”
Apr 2023 — APS April Meeting, Minneapolis — “Rapster: a fast code for dynamical formation of black-hole binaries”
Dec 2022 — APS Mid-Atlantic Section Meeting, Penn State — “Rapster: a fast code for dynamical formation of black-hole binaries in dense star clusters”
Dec 2022 — Xmas Theoretical Workshop @Athens — “Massive black hole assembly in nuclear star clusters”
Aug 2021 — ICNFP 2021 (online) — “Merger rates of black hole binaries in globular clusters”
Header image: simulation of merging black holes and their gravitational waves. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center / Bernard J. Kelly, Chris Henze, Tim Sandstrom.