Research

• Formation of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes
• Intergalactic medium and QSO absorption lines
• Reionization
• Large Scale Structure
• Observational Cosmology

Other Activities:

• PI of the ERC Advanced Grant "The Emergence of Structure during the Epoch of Reionization"
• Project Scientist for the phase A study of the ultra-stable high-resolution spectrograph CODEX for the E-ELT
• Member of the Science Team for E-ELT HIRES
• Coordinator of the former EC Research and training network "The Physics of the Intergalactic Medium"