Group

Current members

Postdoctoral researchers

PhD students

Master's students

Former members

Scientists I formally supervised or co-supervised, and where they went next. Most recent first.

Postdoctoral researchers

• Srashti Goyal, Postdoc, 2023–2026Independent Fellow at IUCAA
• Serena Giardino, Postdoc, 2024–2025Postdoc at Imperial College London
• Guilherme Brando, Humboldt Fellow, 2022–2024Tenured Researcher at UFES, Brazil
• Giovanni Tambalo, Postdoc, 2020–2023Postdoc at ETH Zürich, then Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at IPhT Saclay

PhD students

• Nicola Menadeo, PhD student, U. Naples (co-supervised), 2023–2025, long-term stayPostdoc at Humboldt University of Berlin
• Stefano Savastano, PhD student (co-supervised with A. Buonanno), 2020–2024PhD awarded at HU Berlin
• Carlos García-García, PhD student, IFF-CSIC (co-supervised), 2017–2020Beecroft Fellow at Oxford, now tenure-track scientist at CIEMAT

Master's students

• Shashwat Singh, Master's student, Paris Observatory, 2022–2023PhD at the University of Glasgow
• Julius Streibert, Master's student, FU Berlin (co-supervised), 2022–2023
• Richard Stiskalek, Master's student, LMU (co-supervised), 2021–2022PhD at Oxford, pre-doctoral Fellow at CCA, now postdoc at Oxford
• Alessandro Longo, Master's student, U. Trieste (co-supervised), 2020–2021PhD student at SISSA
• Janina Renk, Master's student, U. Heidelberg (co-supervised), 2015–2016PhD at Stockholm University

Research internships and projects

• Selin Üstündag, Research intern, 2026PhD at Newcastle University
• Marcel Glätzer, Research project, HU Berlin, 2024–2025
• Jaime Raynaud, Research intern, TU Berlin & KTH, 2024–2025PhD at MPIA
• Vaibhav Omble, Research project, LMU, 2023–2024
• Daryna Yushchenko, Undergraduate, Princeton summer program, 2024PhD at Carnegie Mellon University
• Lyla Choi, Undergraduate, Princeton summer program, 2023PhD at Stanford
• Yukei Murakami, Undergraduate, UC Berkeley, 2018–2019PhD at Johns Hopkins University
• Brindha Kanniah, Undergraduate, MIT summer program in Heidelberg, 2015Master's at MIT

Informal supervision

Students whose work I followed closely and published with, without formally supervising them.

PhD students

• Ho Yeuk Cheung, Undergraduate at UC Berkeley, then PhD student at JHU, 2020–2025Fellow at Princeton IAS
• Dina Traykova, PhD student, U. Oxford, 2018–2021Postdoc at MPI-Grav
• Micah Brush, PhD student, UC Berkeley, 2019Postdoc at the University of Alberta
• José María Ezquiaga, PhD student, IFT-UAM, 2015–2019NASA Einstein Fellow at U. Chicago, now Associate Professor at NBI and chair of the LVK lensing group
• Frank Könnig, PhD student, U. Heidelberg, 2015–2016
• Henrik Nersisyan, PhD student, U. Heidelberg, 2016
• Alessio Spurio Mancini, PhD student, U. Heidelberg, 2016Postdoc at the University of Cambridge

Visitors

Researchers who have spent extended periods working with the group, most of them on projects that led to joint publications.

• Manish Tamta, PhD student, IISc Bangalore, 2025, 2026 (two months each) · Lensing diffraction and dark matter.
• Marienza Caldarola, PhD student, IFT-UAM/CSIC, 2025 (3 months) · Simulation-based inference for lensing.
• Macarena Lagos, Professor, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, 2025 · Propagation and lensing of gravitational waves.
• Zachary Slepian, Professor, University of Florida, 2024, 2025
• Ankur Barsode, 2024
• Charles Dalang, Postdoc, Queen Mary University of London and ICG Portsmouth, 2024
• Uddeepta Deka, 2024
• Dylan Jow, Postdoc, Stanford University, 2024 · Wave-optics lensing and the Hubble constant.
• Martin Pijnenburg, PhD student, U. Geneva, 2024 (2 months) · Collective diffraction effects.
• Luka Vujeva, PhD student, U. Copenhagen, 2024 · Strong lensing of gravitational waves.
• Jenny Wagner, Bahamas Advanced Study Institute and Conferences; visiting scholar at ASIAA, Academia Sinica, 2024
• Hanxi Wang, PhD student, U. Oxford, 2024 (5 weeks) · Lensing of starlight by supermassive black-hole binaries.
• Kieran Wood, University of Nottingham, 2024
• David Díaz-Guerra Sánchez, Master's student, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2023 (3 weeks) · Fuzzy dark matter and pulsar timing.
• Parita Mehta, PhD student, Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw, 2023 (1 month) · Strong lensing of gravitational waves.
• Upala Mukhopadhyay, Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2023
• Hiroki Takeda, Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Kyoto University, 2023
• Julian Adamek, Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich, 2020, 2022
• Luisa G. Jaime, UNAM, Mexico, 2022 (3 weeks)
• Marius Oancea, Postdoc, U. Vienna, 2022 · Gravitational spin-Hall effect.

Joining the group

Funded positions are advertised publicly and applications go through the advert. Brief questions are welcome, although a reply is not always possible.

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