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2026
If exotic warp-drive propulsion were ever operating near Earth, it should not be able to hide: we simulated how a small, aircraft-sized spacetime bubble would sweep up and energize the air around it. Above roughly a tenth of the speed of light the interaction releases more than a trillion watts, producing an unmistakable glow, while slow-moving bubbles stay dark.
Fortschritte der Physik 72, 2400110 (2024)
Massive vector fields can grow explosively around spinning black holes, but almost every study of this effect ignores the dark energy that fills our universe. Using GRBoondi, we show that adding a cosmological constant can turn a growing instability into a decaying one, changing what these systems would look like.
Journal of Open Source Software 9, 6888 (2024)
Simulating exotic fields in curved spacetime usually means writing a new code from scratch. GRBoondi is an open-source numerical relativity code that evolves any generalized Proca theory on any fixed background, so a new model can be studied in days rather than months.
PhD thesis, Heidelberg University (2024)
My doctoral thesis: a set of models and simulation tools for dark matter interacting with dynamical black holes, and forecasts of what next-generation gravitational-wave observatories could learn from them.
Physical Review D 108, 083010 (2023)
Space-based gravitational-wave detectors could double as dark matter experiments. We model how a cloud of dark photons grown by a spinning supermassive black hole alters the orbit of a small companion, and show that LISA could use these signals to constrain the dark photon's mass.
2022
A student-friendly set of lecture notes on gravitational waves in full, non-linear general relativity. From the Newman-Penrose formalism to the structure of null infinity and the BMS group, with worked examples and exercises throughout.
Physical Review D 105, 024042 (2022)
General relativity can be rewritten in terms of non-metricity instead of curvature, and its non-linear extension f(Q) changes the physics. We derive the most general static, spherically symmetric geometries in f(Q) gravity and prove that it admits both GR-like and genuinely new black hole solutions, settling a debate in the literature.
Classical and Quantum Gravity 38, 155020 (2021)
Warp drives have long been thought to require enormous amounts of negative energy. By uncovering a hidden geometric structure in the energy of these spacetimes, we construct superluminal warp bubbles sourced entirely by positive energy, with total energy requirements four orders of magnitude below a solar mass.
