I am a Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Never having formally studied astrophysics, I am interested in all aspects of the field. My past work often involved strong gravitational fields, gravitational-wave data analysis and astrostatistics. I currently enjoy learning about massive stellar binaries, dynamics, tidal disruption events, gamma-ray bursts and kilonovae. I occasionally venture even further afield, including into machine learning and paleoclimatology. I find myself in a state of permanent wonder about the mysteries of the universe and permanent confusion about how to explain them -- which is just how I like it.

A lot of my current research focuses on the exploration of the evolution of massive binary stars into compact binaries as sources of gravitational-waves and astrophysical inference on gravitational-wave observations. My research group on massive binary evolution -- also known as Team COMPAS -- includes a number of amazing students, postdocs, former students and postdocs, and other fantastic collaborators. Please contact me if you are interested in joining at any level!

CV, including a publication list.

Links to publications on ADS; arXiv preprint server (or see author's page); Google Scholar.