About Me
Current: Pre-PhD Student · ICTP HECAP · Inflationary Cosmology
I love nature and exploring the world, I’ve found that Earth’s beauty really shows itself when I slow down, wander a bit aimlessly, and take those long, quiet walks. Outside of physics, I spend a good amount of time in the kitchen. I like to think I’m a great cook… though the results occasionally suggest I’m more of an experimentalist than a chef. Either way, I enjoy the freedom of improvising with whatever ingredients I have.
I’ve also recently taken up a very humble (borderline chaotic) level of tango, still very much in the “counting steps and hoping for the best” phase, but enjoying it a lot. That's why, visiting Argentina is on my near to-do-list, to both get more tango skills and get the taste of their cuisine!
My research focuses on primordial cosmology, with an emphasis on the interplay between inflation, gravity, and high-energy particle physics. I work on constructing and analyzing models of the Universe’s earliest moments, ranging from single- and multifield inflation to Palatini and modified gravity frameworks, and study their observational signatures.
A central theme of my work is understanding how inflation connects to particle physics, embeded in different gravity frameworks, as well as its role in reheating, dark matter production, and leptogenesis. In parallel, I investigate how modifications of gravity and nontrivial field-space dynamics affect primordial fluctuations, gravitational wave propagation, and parity-violating signatures.
Overall, my goal is to develop a coherent framework in which early-universe cosmology serves as a probe of fundamental physics, linking inflationary dynamics to particle physics and observable signatures.
Colleagues and Collaborators
My current research centers on inflationary cosmology and its connections to gravity, particle physics, reheating, and primordial gravitational-wave signatures. I collaborate particularly closely with Anish Ghoshal and Nilay Bostan on early-universe physics, and with Andrew L. Miller and others on gravitational-wave and parity-violation questions.
Some of my present and past collaborators:
Nilay Bostan, Anish Ghoshal, Qaisar Shafi, Zygmunt Lalak, Andrew L. Miller, Antonio Racioppi, Christian Dioguardi, Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Biagio De Simone, Giovanni Montani, S. Shankaranarayanan, Yaren Doruk, Jason Kristiano, and Gonzalo A. Palma
