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Formation of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes
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Intergalactic medium and QSO absorption lines
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Reionization
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Large Scale Structure
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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 optical 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"