Hello! I am Lidia, a postdoctoral researcher at SISSA. My research focuses on developing a diverse range of computational techniques to help unlock the new era of gravitational-wave astronomy.

I received my PhD from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), under the supervision of Profs. Pau Figueras and Juan Valiente Kroon. My thesis focused on the time-domain modelling of e(X)tremely and (E)xtreme mass-ratio inspirals (X/EMRIs). During my PhD, I developed two numerical frameworks: DiscoTEX-J0 and ANSORG, a multi-domain fully spectral method developed with Rodrigo Panosso Macedo. Both are designed to deliver highly accurate and computationally efficient results.

My main research programmes are:

  [X\EMRI\@DiscoTEX-J2ftselforce1d] — In collaboration with Peter Diener and the BHPToolkit, we are developing methods for producing alternative waveform models to the multiscale-expansion approach through self-consistent evolution (SCE). While SCEs cannot achieve the computational speeds of multiscale methods, they remain an important source of ground truth and provide a natural framework for treating challenging regions of parameter space.

  [SIMFONIA//SINFONIA-JX] — Development of structure-preserving neural-flow methods for accelerating gravitational-wave modelling and enabling new approaches to inference and discovery.

  Scientific numerical and machine learning methods — Development of numerical techniques for gravitational physics, with a particular focus on geometric numerical integration, spectral methods, and scientific machine learning.

If you would like to become involved in any of these projects, please feel free to contact me by email. I do not currently have funding to hire PhD students or postdoctoral researchers, but I am happy to discuss co-supervision, collaboration, and mentoring opportunities with highly motivated students and early-career researchers.