About Me

Since March 2024, I am a Professor in Cosmology at Bielefeld University where I took up my ERC Starting Grant 2022 (worth ~1.5 million EUR) on “Probing cosmic large-scale structure beyond the average”. Two postdocs started late 2024/early 2025 and I will advertise a PhD position for a start in autumn 2025 (watch out for updates on the Jobs page). I am a Henriette Herz Scout for the Humboldt Foundation, so if you are interested in being hosted in my group in Bielefeld for a Humboldt Research Fellowship and belong to an underrepresented group, please get in touch. I am coordinator for the Euclid Consortium DR 1 Key Project “Higher-order weak lensing statistics with mass mapping”, previously I was co-leading the Additional Galaxy Clustering Probes work package. I am also active in the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration higher-order statistics topical team and member in the SKA Observatory Cosmology Working Group.

I am a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. Previously, I was a Reader in Cosmology as part of Applied Mathematics at Newcastle University, deputy lead for our Theoretical Cosmology group, deputy director of the NUdata STFC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Intensive Science for Astrophysics in collaboration with Northumbria University, and member of the Observational Astronomy research group.

My research group:

  • you? (ERC-funded PhD student, from October 2025)
  • Bernhard Vos Gines (ERC-funded postdoc, since December 2024)
  • Ashim Sen Gupta (ERC-funded postdoc, since November 2024)
  • Carolyn Mill (PhD student in the STFC CDT NUdata, since September 2023)
  • Lina Castiblanco Tolosa (STFC-funded PostDoc, since October 2022)
  • Beth Gould (PhD student, since September 2022)
  • Alex Gough (PhD student, September 2020 – August 2024) 

I am very excited to have been part of the ‘Universe Unravelled’ Series filmed at Cambridge that is now available on Discovery+, the streaming channel of Discovery Channel UK.

Together with Ulrike Böhm, I am running the facebook page ‘Physikerinnen’ for female physicists. Every week, we highlight an excellent women in physics (from student to professor) as ‘female physicist of the week’. I am committed to making a positive contribution to EDI in academia and supportive of underrepresented groups including women, BAME, LGBTQIA+.

If you want to learn more about me and my research, see some interviews and press releases