Research interests

My main research interests are related to gravity and cosmology. During my masters I studied black hole solutions, no-hair theorems and the maximum size of astrophysical objects in modified theories of gravity.

Later, in my PhD I used symmetries, and studied the invariance of several modified gravity models under various transformations, in order to constrain their actions. In addition, I studied the two dynamically equivalent but geometrically different formulations of General Relativity, namely Telleparallel gravity, as well as modifications in this framework. Building on that, together with two colleagues, Dr. Sebastian Bahamonde and Dr. Jackson Levi Said, we formulated the Horndeski analog in the teleparallel framework, meaning, the most general scalar torsion theory in 4-dimensions with a single scalar field, leading to second order field equations; the BDLS theory.

Furthermore, using the No Boundary Proposal I have studied the primordial production of black holes in the early Universe and proposed a novel criterion to constrain gravity models.

Lately, I've started working on inhomogeneous cosmologies, gravitational collapse, as well as possibilities to combine machine learning techniques with cosmological data, in order to find, in a model-independent way, the theory of gravity which would be favoured by the data.

As soon as I find some time, I'll elaborate more.