About me
I am a Kavli Senior Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge and at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Previously, I was a Nordita/OKC postdoctoral fellow at the Nordita Institute and the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University. My journey started at Monash University, where I completed my PhD in astrophysics in 2021.
I am a theoretical astrophysicist using a combination of analytical and numerical modelling combined with powerful statistical techniques such as Bayesian inference, hierarchical modelling, and machine learning to interpret observations. I am particularly interested in the multi-messenger astrophysics of neutron star mergers, the lightcurves of electromagnetic transients like GRBs, supernovae, TDEs, and kilonovae, and neutron stars in general.
I am a member of numerous collaborations working on electromagnetic transients and gravitational waves, including the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) and the Transients and Variables group in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
Recent News (2025)
26th September: Eyles-Ferris et al. 2025 - Can GRB 250702B be explained as the tidal disruption of a white dwarf by an intermediate mass black hole? Yes. arXiv
26th September: Gompertz et al. 2025 - JWST Spectroscopy of GRB 250702B. arXiv
8th-12th September: Rattle and Shine workshop in Hamburg - talk on BNS mergers
1st-3rd September: Wetton workshop at Oxford on multi-messenger astronomy
20th August: Schulze et al. 2025 - Extremely stripped supernova reveals a silicon and sulfur formation site published in Nature (cover article!)
19th August: Moved to Cambridge, UK to start Kavli Senior Fellowship
4th June: Sarin et al. 2025 - Surrogate models for lightcurves and photosphere properties of Type II supernovae. arXiv
23th-27th June: EAS meeting in Cork - invited talks on Fast X-ray transients and kilonovae
17th-24th May: Conference in Rio de Janeiro on time-domain astronomy in the Rubin era
29th April: Schulze et al. 2025 - A cosmic formation site of silicon and sulphur accepted in Nature. arXiv
9th April: Wallace and Sarin 2025 - Fitting strategies for GRB afterglows with kilonova contamination accepted in MNRAS. arXiv
1st March: Rosswog, Sarin et al. 2025 - Fast dynamic ejecta in neutron star mergers accepted in MNRAS. arXiv