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Galactic Gas Explorer
From reconstructions of gaseous atomic and molecular Hydrogen (corresponding publication) in the Milky Way, I have created an interactive, 3D visualisation that everyone can access in the browser.
Recent Activity
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GISM3 Summer School
I travelled to Banyuls-sur-Mer in southern France, attending the International Summer School on The Interstellar Medium of Nearby Galaxies (GISM3). The lectures spanned the areas of methods (machine learning, information measures, Bayesian inference, simulations), observations (across the electromagnetic spectrum, including various emission lines), and theory (interstellar grains, astrochemistry, stellar populations, nucleosynthesis). I participated in a…
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Interstellar Institute 2025
I had the opportunity to visit Institut Pascal in Paris-Saclay, France for a week to participate in the 7th Interstellar Institute – a mixture of seminar, workshop, and retreat. I had a great time talking to many people whose names I knew from various papers but did not yet have a chance to meet. I…
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Published Paper: The local dark matter density
I’m excited to share my latest research on one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries: dark matter. Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope, we inferred how much dark matter exists in our local neighborhood of the galaxy. Dark matter makes up about 85% of all matter in the universe, but it’s invisible and can…