Using data to learn things about the Universe (humans included).

I’m a Research Fellow in Cosmology at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, in the University of Portsmouth.

Prior to this, I was a postdoctoral researcher in cosmology at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology / University of California Riverside. I got my Ph.D. in physics in 2016 at the Institute of Space Sciences in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

I develop new numerical cosmological simulations in the preparation of future cosmological experiments, that will produce the most accurate maps of the large-scale structure of the Universe. The ultimate goal of these missions is to better understand the properties of the elusive dark matter and dark energy components of the Universe.

I have produced realistic simulated catalogs in various models of gravity, which serve as a laboratory to make theoretical predictions and to test methodologies under clean and known conditions. These simulated data sets are key to understand statistical errors and to mitigate systematic errors.

My research

Ph.D. Dissertation: Producing simulated catalogues for next generation galaxy surveys

Publication list on ADS