Life and explosive death of massive stars

The origin of the elements

Nuclear astrophysics

Current work comprises the study of massive to supermassive stars (10-100,000 solar masses); the first generations of stars in the universe (Pop III stars); evolution of rotating massive stars and the spin of their remnants (including predictions for GW sources); mixing and transport processes in the stellar interior; nucleosynthesis and the origin of elements, including galacto-chemical evolution - which elements are made where and when; supernovae (mechanisms and nucleosynthesis); gamma-ray bursts (collapsars and similar models) and their progenitors; modeling of Type I X-ray bursts and superbursts (thermonuclear explosions on the surface of neutron stars); stellar rotation of misaligned systems (internal rotation evolution, binary and mutile stars dynamics and interaction).

Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, 2015 -

Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, 2012 - 2014.

Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Univeristy of Minnesota, 2008-2012.

Technical Staff Member, Theoretcial Astrophysics Group (T-6), Theory Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2003-2008.

Fellow, Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, 2001-2003.

Alexander von Humboldt Feodor Lynen Fellow, Department of Astronomy, The University of Califrnia at Santa Cruz, 1998-2001.

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Dr. rer. nat. (TUM), 1995-1998.

Physics Diploma, TUM, 1989-1995.

PosDoc, PhD, Masters, Honours, Undergraduate Research (e.g., PHS2350, PHS3350), and Summer Vacation Scholar Projects in the areas above.

Happy to help with problems related to Python and numerical applications (Numpy).