Compact objects in globular clusters
Image credits: Artist's impression of a black hole cluster, by ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann.
Learn moreAbout me
I am an astrophysicist, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), and member of the
HSTPROMO
collaboration.
I am also very interested in outreach, and sharing my passion
for the cosmos with the general public.
My research focuses on the dynamical modeling of dense stellar systems
like globular clusters and dwarf galaxies. The main question I aim to answer is:
“How dynamical interactions shape the evolution of dense stellar systems?”.
This leads to interesting research topics, from the smallest scales of galaxy
evolution and its relation with the still mysterious dark matter, down to the
formation and clustering of compact objects such as black holes and white dwarfs.
To study these aspects, I use astronomical data from the Hubble Space Telescope,
the Gaia astrometric mission, as well as numerical simulations.
I was born and raised in the Brazilian sea of hills from
Minas Gerais.
I attended the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
(ITA, Aerospace Engineering), and further moved to École polytechnique
(l'X, France), where I graduated in Engineering and obtained
my master's degree in Astrophysics, together with the Paris Observatory master's program.
I obtained my Ph.D. in astrophysics in 2022 at Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (Sorbonne Université).
Side image credits: Simulation of the internal motions of stars in the core of the globular cluster NGC 6656 based on the
HACKS catalogs.
Video created by
Mattia Libralato.
Background image credits: Soumita SAMANTA.
