My research focuses on understanding the interactions of black holes across all mass scales with their surroundings, including stars, gas, and even other black holes. In particular, I focus on interactions that are observable, such as tidal disruption events, stellar collisions, and electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves. My research interests also include stellar dynamics, blue straggler formation, runaway star formation, hot Jupiters, and binary mass transfer. I use tools such as magnetohydrodynamical simulations with radiative transfer and N-body simulations.
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black hole astrophysics, transients, galactic nuclei, stellar dynamics
