Astrophysics of compact objects

• Neutron stars and stellar mass black holes: their link to star formation

• Intermediate mass black holes in dense star clusters

• Supermassive black holes and their link to galaxy evolution

 

       Dynamics

• Stellar dynamics in star clusters

• Dynamical processes in the cosmic assembly of galaxies

 

       Current Research

• Dynamics of millisecond pulsars in globular clusters

• Search of binary black holes in globular clusters using pulsar dynamics

• Dynamics of close 3 and 4 body stellar encounters: formation of binary black holes with a planetary pulsar

• Relativistic effects in double binary pulsars

• Black hole and neutron star natal kicks

• Modeling Soft-X-Ray Transients in quiescence: a look into the neutron star interior

• X-Ray Binaries in early type galaxies

• Intermediate mass black holes in nearby galaxies

• Dynamics of supermassive black holes in merging galaxies

• Origin of the mass versus sigma correlation of supermassive black holes

• Tidal stirring of dwarf galaxies in cosmological halos

• Foundations on the theory of dynamical friction

 

       Previous Research

• Isolated neutron stars in the Milky Way

• Magnetars: magnetic field decay in non linear regimes

• Sub-millisecond pulsars

• Accreting black holes in the aftermath of supernova explosions

• Exploding neutron stars near the minimum mass

• Radiative processes in Accreting plasmas around black holes

• Boson stars