Mentoring

Mentorship is one of the most rewarding parts of my work as a researcher. I genuinely enjoy guiding students and early-career scientists through the discovery process—helping them develop their ideas, build confidence, and gain the skills they need to thrive in research. Investing time in others’ development strengthens the science we do together and builds the collaborative, supportive culture in which I believe research should be rooted.

Supervising, Co-Supervisiong, and Mentoring students

Anna Dignan
(UVa Graduate Student, on-going)

Multi-wave view on star formation in nearby galaxies

Nerea Real Nsi
(REU Summer student, 0.2 yr)

Excitation of CO in ultra-luminous galaxies

Ellie Spande
(REU Summer student, 0.2 yr)

HI and CO velocity dispersion in nearby galaxies

Breanna Yeboah
(NAC Summer Student, 0.2 yr)

Excitation of CO in one ultra-luminous galaxy

Sebastian Laudage
(Master student, 1 yr)

HI Kinematics of nearby galaxies with new MeerKAT data
(published in A&A)
(now: PhD in experimental particle physics)

Anna Dignan
(NRAO Post-Bacc, 0.5 yr)

Star formation via radio continuum emission
(published in ApJ)

Josephine Benna
(Bachelor student, 0.5 yr)

Stability analysis of nearby galaxies with MeerKAT data
(now: Master student at MPfIR)

Roberto Emulo
(Master student, 1 yr)

Star formation in
extended HI disk

Recent News & Updates

  • Invited talk at GALRES25

    I was in Garching at ESO for the “Galactic ecosystems under the microscope: lessons from highly-resolved studies” workshop at the beginning of July. I was invited to give a talk about highly resolved HI observations and how I use them together with observations from ALMA and space telescopes for my research.

  • CosmicAI Bootcamp

    In May, I participated at the CosmicAI Bootcamp in Austin, Texas at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Lectures and hands-on sessions included: Machine Learning and Supervised Learning, Advanced Supervised Learning, Deep Learning, Distributed Deep Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Generative AI and LLMs, Deep Reinforcement Learning, and Astro-AI Software Demos. It was an intensive and very informativeContinue…

  • PHANGS team meeting in Nice, France

    In February of each year, members of the Physics at High Angular Resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) usually meet in person to discuss our achievements of the previous year and set goals for the new year. Since 2022, I’ve been co-leading the HI and Radio Continuum Science Working Group within PHANGS. Similar to the yearsContinue…