Occasional writing
Mostly about life, myself, and how research gets done rather than what it found — the postdoc pipeline, my odd position in the astronomical community being neither a true theorist nor observer, and other things I wish someone had told me earlier (or made public somehow).
19 March 2026
The postdoctoral job market is one of the major challenges anyone wishing to work in academia must face. To gain insights into the dynamics of the market, we can model, fit, and simulate the market. These simulations let us answer a few hard questions.
13 March 2026
The postdoctoral job market is one of the major challenges anyone wishing to work in academia must face. Here I want to provide some lessons learned and personal reflections for both other and my future self.
3 October 2024
Many people ask me if I am a theorist or an observer, and the answer is always a bit of a mess. Here are my thoughts on it, being both and maybe something different.
3 October 2024
Coming from a non-anglophone background means that my name is often messed up, both in writing and pronunciation. Here is a little guide!
19 September 2022
We show how building a graph neural network emulator using merger trees encoded as graphs can both dramatically improve the precision with which we make simulated galaxies **and** improve our understanding of the galaxies we make!