Left, a group of galaxies mapped by KiDS. Right, the same area of sky, but with the invisible dark matter rendered in pink. (credit: ESO, based on Viola et al. 2015)
I’m a post-doctoral fellow at the Leiden Observatory.
My research focuses on better understanding the nature of dark matter and dark energy and how galaxies form. I use weak gravitational lensing measurements from large galaxy surveys as the main technique to investigate the dark Universe. My work is both theoretical and observational.
For my research I mainly use data from these surveys: