About Me
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, Germany.
I completed my PhD at University College Dublin in 2022 with my Thesis “Numerical approaches to first- and second-order self-force calculations” under the supervision of Dr. Niels Warburton. I was funded by the Royal Society.
My research focuses on modelling gravitational self-force from systems from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) using black hole perturbation theory. Here the smaller body is treated as a perturbation of an exact black hole solution and this leads to a solution in terms of a formal power series in the mass ratio. For the future space-based gravitational wave detector, LISA, it is necessary to consider up to second-order in the mass ratio. In particular, I am interested in how to compute these second-order waveforms for systems where the smaller body is in an eccentric orbit around the primary black hole.
MPhys Physics with Theoretical Physics graduate from the University of Manchester.