Current Students
Doctoral
2023–
Michael Kovač (co-advisor with Andrina Nicola)
University of Bonn · expected completion 2027
Master's
2025
Elyas Farah (advisor)
University of Bonn
Thesis: Forecasting the impact of systematic uncertainties on the dispersion measure-redshift relation of fast radio bursts
2025
Reihan Javadi (co-advisor)
University of Bonn
Thesis: Modelling the impact of active galactic nuclei on the cross-correlation of cosmic shear and the diffuse X-ray background
Former Students
Doctoral
2018–2020
Yonadav Barry Ginat (co-advisor with Vincent Desjacques)
Technion — Israel Institute of Technology
Thesis: Gravitational Waves and Non-Linear Phenomena in Gravitational Astrophysics
Now: Leverhulme–Peierls Fellow , University of Oxford
Master's
2026
Mohammadreza Torkamani (advisor)
University of Bonn
Thesis: An analytical model for the dispersion measure probability density function of fast radio bursts: large-scale structure
2026
Malena Held (co-advisor)
University of Bonn
Thesis: Investigating the impact of observational systematics on bispectrum measurements
2024
Koustav Konar
German Centre for Cosmological Lensing , Bochum
Thesis: Simulation-based inference with fast radio bursts
Now: PhD student, Stellenbosch University
2024
Dennis Neumann
German Centre for Cosmological Lensing , Bochum
Thesis: Testing modified gravity with fast radio bursts
Now: PhD student, Leiden University
Aude Migeon
German Centre for Cosmological Lensing , Bochum
Thesis: Constraining axions with weak lensing shear peak counts
2018
Carolina Cuesta Lázaro
University of Heidelberg
Thesis: Gravitational corrections to light propagation in a perturbed FLRW universe and weak lensing spectra
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow , MIT & Harvard Center for Astrophysics
2018
Arnau Quera Bofarull
University of Heidelberg
Thesis: Gravitational corrections to light propagation in a perturbed FLRW universe and weak lensing spectra
Now: Researcher, Macrocosm , New York
2020
Eileen Giesel
University of Heidelberg
Thesis: Information geometry in cosmological inference
Now: PhD researcher, Zentrum für Astronomie , Heidelberg · intrinsic alignments, weak lensing, information geometry
2020
Dominic Chia
University of Heidelberg
Thesis: Information geometry in cosmological inference
2021
Victor Bosca
University of Heidelberg
Thesis: Testing modified (Horndeski) gravity by combining intrinsic galaxy alignments with weak cosmic shear
Now: PhD student, Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC , Madrid
Bachelor's
Internships
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