My main research interests are (click for more details):

• (Low-mass) Galaxy formation and evolution

• Emission line galaxies
  
• Extreme stellar populations
  
• Near-IR spectroscopy

The redshift range from 1.4 > z > 2.5 was once known as the "redshift desert" due to the difficulty of identifying common emission lines with CCDs beyond ~1μm. This has drastically changed with the advent of advanced near-IR detectors in recent years, allowing us to efficiently probe the redshift range when most of the stellar mass in the Universe was built-up.

To date, I have been working with a variety of near-IR data from HST/WFC3 grism and ground-based VLT/X-Shooter and LBT/LUCI1 spectroscopy. I have developed a pipeline based on XIDL for use with LBT/LUCI1 data, so please contact me if you are interested.

• Multi-wavelength galaxy surveys
  
• Gravitational lensing
• High-z galaxy searches

Using MUSE, I study the restframe-ultraviolet spectra of high-redshift galaxies. Features in this part of the spectrum, such as the C III] and Lyman-alpha emission lines, provide a lot of information about the physical state of these young galaxies. This type of study is extremly powerful when combined with information from the restframe-optical region, which can be obtained with Hubble's WFC3 camera. A key strength to this approach is the un-targeted nature of both instruments, allowing us to get a clear view of the full population of galaxies.