Teaching

Graduate students supervision

Master Theses

Sasha Graulus Thesis

2024 - 2025: Master thesis (1 year, 30 ECTS)
Student: Sasha Graulus
Project: Mass transfer stability of massive binaries: the role of stellar structure in forming merging double compact objects

Iremsu Taskin Thesis

2023 - 2024: Master thesis (1 year, 30 ECTS)
Student: Iremsu Taşkın
Project: Investigating asteroseismic post-mass transfer candidates using population synthesis

Research Projects

2024: Research project (8 weeks, 3 ECTS)
Master students: Mathias Mertens, Emma Zoe Casier, Sebastien Kinif
Project: Explaining classical Wolf-Rayet stars as merger products with MESA

Wolf-Rayet Project View PDF

2024: Research project (6 weeks, 3 ECTS)
Master student: Nick van Wouve
Project: Challenging the single star evolution scenario of Be-stars with MESA

Be-stars Project View PDF

2023: Research project (6 weeks, 3 ECTS)
Master student: Eva Kuipers
Project: Interacting stripped stars: can mass transfer outrule a gravitational wave detection from merging double compact objects?

Stripped Stars Project View PDF

2023: Research project (8 weeks, 3 ECTS)
Master students: Frederic Hallein, Louis Mathijs, Likitha Madhav Mohan Rekha
Project: The impact of wind mass loss on the progenitor systems of merging double compact objects with MESA

Wind Mass Loss Project View PDF

2022: Research project (6 weeks, 3 ECTS)
Master student: Federica Nardini
Project: Analysing the candidate B+BH VFTS 291 with MESA

VFTS 291 Project View PDF

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While I build this page, you can already enjoy a coursebook about Multimessenger Astronomy (based on lectures from Prof. Elisa Bernardini in Padova) that I wrote when I was in my undergrad. I am really proud of this project: here 💖.