I am fascinated by the extremes. In astrophysics, this means the neutron stars, objects weighing more than the Sun but of the size of a city, composed of the densest matter currently existing in the Universe, and the black holes - manifestations of pure geometry of curved spacetime.

To learn more about these unusual objects, my research interests revolve around the gravitational-wave data analysis methods (and, in general, methods of analysing the difficult, noisy data) and modeling of various astrophysical compact objects using numerical general relativity and dense matter physics. This often requires a lot of coding, the use of high-performance computing (with hardware accelerators like the Graphical Processing Units) and the usage of novel types of machine learning algorithms, like the deep neural networks.

I work at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (CAMK) in Warsaw, Poland as an associate professor. In 2018 I’ve spent a year at the APC in Paris working in the gravitation group on astrophysics of gravitational waves, and machine learning. Since September 2021 I also work at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Ferrara, Italy as an associate professor.

In the meantime I participated in the COST action G2Net, studying Machine Learning applications in Gravitational-Wave astronomy as a work group leader.

Published works: arXiv and NASA ADS | Scientific CV

My collaborators in Warsaw:

  • Sudhagar Suyamprakasam (PhD student),
  • Anirudh Nemmani (PhD student),
  • dr Przemysław Figura (post-doc),
  • dr Paweł Ciecieląg (CAMK staff).

Previous members:

  • dr Magdalena Sieniawska (PhD at CAMK; now data scientist in the private sector)
  • dr Filip Morawski (PhD at CAMK; now data scientist in the private sector)
  • dr Jonas P. Pereira (Institute of Physics & International Center of Physics, University of Brasilia)

Software projects I like

  • Polgraw All-Sky pipeline to search for almost monochromatic gravitational waves (source codes on github)
  • SageManifolds (Differential geometry and tensor calculus with Sage) with Sage (Software for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation)
  • LORENE (Langage Objet pour la RElativité NumériquE)
  • gwpy (python package for gravitational-wave astrophysics)
  • GWOSC (Gravitational Wave Open Science Center)

Collaborations

  • LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration (LVKC): LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory)-Virgo (Virgo detector, European Gravitational Observatory)-KAGRA (Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector),
  • Virgo-POLGRAW Consortium,
  • COST action G2net, a network for Gravitational Waves, Geophysics and Machine Learning,
  • Einstein Telescope