Research path

Many of my collaborations began during my Ph.D. at LMU and ESO in Garching. My thesis, The Birth of Cosmic Structures as Revealed by Observations in the (Sub-)mm Bands, was awarded Magna Cum Laude — in line with my Cum Laude Master’s degree from Leiden University.

After my Ph.D., I returned to Leiden to join the ALMA Regional Center (October 2024 – current) as an independent postdoctoral researcher. Any of these steps is accompanied by end products, e.g., a thesis, which are all linked below.

Theses

  • 1st Msc Thesis

    With my first thesis (with J. Hodge and M. Rybak), I studied star formation in starburst galaxies at cosmic noon, developing a uv-plane matched filter to detect faint spectral lines. This led to the first detection of HCO⁺(4–3) in a high-redshift SMG at 20 mas resolution—work that continues in a broader study of dense gas in starbursts.

    Thesis 1

  • 2nd Msc Thesis

    My second thesis (with H. Hoekstra and S. Debackere) explored how small-scale clumping in the ICM impacts the X-ray luminosity–halo mass relation. I built a phenomenological model from hydrodynamical simulations to generate mock X-ray observations of galaxy clusters with varying clumping levels.

    Thesis 2

  • Ph.D. Thesis

    Supervised by Tony Mroczkowski, Gergö Popping, and Eiichiro Komatsu, I had to opportunity to explore cosmic structure growth in the sub-mm observing bands. Studying the formation of galaxies and galaxy clusters observationally with ALMA. The thesis was awarded magna cum laude.

    Thesis 3