Research interests
My past and current research efforts have primarily focused on using a computational approach to face different problems in astrophysics and cosmology. In particular, I specialise in the use of hydrodynamical cosmological simulations which have played a crucial role over the last 10+ years in understanding the relevance of the different small scale physical processes and testing the robustness and reliability of the different models proposed in a cosmological context.
During my research career I have contributed to the development of state of the art gravo-hydrodynamical codes and become an expert in the use of high performance computing facilities as well as in building reliable analysis pipeline that allow their comparison with observational data. My research interests include:
- Galaxy Formation and Evolution in a Cosmological Context. I am specially interested in Early-type and Dwarf Galaxies.
- Constraining the Nature of Dark Matter and the Cosmological Constant.
- Using the phenomenon of the Lyman-Alpha forest absorption as a tool to study astrophysics of the circumgalactic media of galaxies, the intergalactic medium and to constrain the cosmological parameters of the Universe. To study this, I am leading several efforts to improve the models used to compare with observations. Check out the THERMAL Suite
- The Effects of AGN radiation on the kpc-scale InterStellar Medium Using Radiative Transfer Codes.
