research summary

I study the densest matter in the universe - the cores of neutron stars. Describing this extreme matter directly from theory is challenging. Yet increasingly precise astrophysical observations of neutron stars provide empirical access to how this matter behaves. My research combines these measurements with theoretical calculations to determine the physics of neutron-star interiors.

My central contribution has been demonstrating how perturbative QCD calculations at asymptotically high densities constrain the behaviour, governed by the equation of state, at the densities found inside neutron stars [#01]. The interplay between these QCD constraints and astrophysical observations allows us to show, with high confidence, that the cores of the most massive neutron stars undergo a phase transition, either through a smooth crossover to deconfined quark matter [#02] or through a destabilizing first-order phase transition [#06]. A major part of this research is the development of a Bayesian framework for model-agnostic inference of the neutron-star equation of state. One of our most recent milestones [#04] was constructing the first first-principles-motivated framework that generates the full range of physically allowed neutron-star equations of state.

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