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Current position

  • 2026 -
    Lise Meitner Group Leader (tenure track)
    Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg
    • Independent research group supported by the Lise Meitner Excellence Program and ERC Starting Grant “FIRST-GIANTS”

Previous

  • 2025 - 2026
    Clay Fellow
    Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
  • 2022 - 2025
    MPIA Prize Fellow
    Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg

Education

  • 2018 - 2022
    PhD (cum laude)
    Leiden University, NL
    • Thesis title: “Shaping massive galaxies: the structural evolution of galaxies across 0<z<1”
    • Advisor: Marijn Franx
  • 2013 - 2018
    MPhys (hons) Astrophysics
    University of Edinburgh, UK
  • 2015 - 2016
    Exchange student (UC Education Abroad Program)
    University of California, Berkeley

Honours and Awards

  • 2025
    • Clay Prize Fellowship
  • 2022
    • MPIA Prize Fellowship
    • PhD thesis cum laude distinction
  • 2018
    • de Sitter PhD Fellowship (Leiden University)
    • Margaret Ann Stewart Memorial Prize in Physics (University of Edinburgh)
    • Emerson Prize in Astrophysics (University of Edinburgh)