Until October 2011 I was a postdoctoral researcher in the LIGO Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. As a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, my work was related to searches for gravitational waves with ground-based interferometers.
I worked primarily in theoretical source modelling for gravitational waves; that is, the study of different astrophysical systems to find out what kind of gravitational radiation they are expected to emit. I worked with the teams that analyze the output from the LIGO, Virgo and GEO detectors and try to find those signals in the data. I mainly focused on binaries of black holes and on gravitational waves from supernovae.
I obtained my PhD degree from the University of Potsdam. I did my doctoral research at the Albert-Einstein-Institut (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) in Potsdam, Germany, under the supervision of Bernard Schutz and Badri Krishnan. Before that, I worked in Bernd Brügmann's Numerical Relativity group at the University of Jena, Germany. I obtained my Physics degree in June 2005 from the University of Salamanca, Spain. I spent the summers of 2004 and 2005 having fun while working with the particle accelerators at DESY and CERN.
Since November 2011 I am an editor at the mathematics abstract service ZentralBlatt Math in Berlin.