Education

• Astronomy PhD, University of Maryland (UMD): 2023 - present
  • Dissertation ‘‘A next-generation model for the interstellar medium and star formation in the largest cosmological simulations’’, supervised by Dr Benedikt Diemer.
• Astrophysics MSc, University College London (UCL): 2021 - 2022
  • Distinction received.
  • Dissertation ‘‘Thermal history and kinematics of the gas accreted onto galaxies’’, supervised by Dr Andrew Pontzen and Dr Corentin Cadiou.
• Astrophysics BSc, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL): 2018 - 2021
  • 1st class honours received.
  • Dissertation ‘‘Late Universe Expansion: an Introduction into fundamental equations in Cosmology’’, supervised by Dr Karim Malik.

Positions

• Pre-Doctoral Program Research Analyst — Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute: Fall 2026
  • '’Connecting the physics of HII regions with observables’’, supervised by Dr Mike Grudić and Dr Lachlan Lancaster.
• Graduate Researcher — University of Maryland, College Park: 2023 - present
  • '’A next-generation model for the interstellar medium and star formation in the largest cosmological simulations’’, supervised by Dr Benedikt Diemer.
  • '’Tracing the Timescales of Gas Evolution and Star Formation in Galactic Environments’’, supervised by Dr Vadim Semenov.
  • '’The MULTIVERSE project: Towards realistic halo-scale constraints on the nature of dark matter and gravity’’, supervised by Dr Benedikt Diemer.
• Research Assistant at Lund University, Sweden: 2022 – 2023
  • '’Hot gas accretion fuels star formation faster than cold accretion in high redshift galaxies’’, supervised by Dr Oscar Agertz and Dr Corentin Cadiou.
• Summer 2021 Research Internship at QMUL
  • '’Studying potential hosts of gravitational waves events’’, supervised by Dr Tessa Baker.
• Summer 2020 Research Internship at QMUL
  • '’Mapping the 3D UV radiation field of the Milky Way with GAIA’’, supervised by Dr Thomas Haworth.

Selected Honors and Awards

• CCA Pre-Doctoral Program Fellow, Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics (2026)

• Fulbright Poland Scholarship: Graduate Student Award - $47,000 for the 2023/24 academic year (received renewal for 2024/2025).

• Graduate School Dean’s Fellowship 2026 - equivalent to $2,500.

• Graduate School Dean’s Fellowship 2023 - equivalent to $7,500 for exceptional candidates admitted to the PhD program.

• Women in Science Scholarship from the Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences at King’s College London (2018/19) - equivalent to £3,000 (awarded, declined by candidate).

Conference talks

• RAMSES User Meeting 2025, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. 27.04 - 01.05.2026.

• 18th Potsdam Thinkshop on Galaxy Feedback (poster), Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, Germany. 14 - 18.07.2025.

• Multiphase Madness - Resolving the CGM in Theory and Observations, Harvard & Smithsonian, USA. 21 - 23.08.2024. [yt recording]

• RAMSES User Meeting 2024, Center for Computational Astrophysics, New York City, USA. 23 - 27.04.2024.

• 243rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (poster), New Orleans, USA. 07 - 11.01.2024.

• RAMSES User Meeting 2023, University of Oxford, UK. 18 - 21.04.2023.

• British Conference of Undergraduate Research, The University of Leeds, UK. 12 - 13.04.2021.

Seminar talks

• Cosmology and Galaxy Formation Group Seminar, Harvard & Smithsonian, USA. 06.03.2026.

• Astronomy Department Seminar, Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. 30.10.2025.

• Galaxy Formation Group Seminar, Center for Computational Astrophysics, New York City, USA. 21.03.2025.

• Astronomy and Space Physics Seminar, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA. 11.10.2024.

• Milky Way Halo Group Seminar, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA. 04.10.2024.