Curriculum vitae

A short summary of my background. The full CV — with the complete list of grants, observing programs, talks, teaching, and outreach — is available as a PDF.

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Positions

2026 –: Research Scientist, California Institute of Technology — UVEX Science Operations Coordinator; NuSTAR Science Operations Center
2024 – 2026: Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, California Institute of Technology (NuSTAR SOC)
2023 – 2024: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome
2022 – 2024: Associate Astronomer, INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence
2021 – 2023: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, IRAP, Toulouse
2018 – 2020: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Education

2014 – 2018: PhD in Astrophysics (Cum Laude), SISSA — International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste
2012 – 2014: MSc in Astrophysics, Notre Dame University (NDU) & Université Saint-Joseph (USJ), Lebanon
2009 – 2012: BSc in Physics, Université Saint-Joseph (USJ), Lebanon

Selected awards & grants

Over USD 738k in awarded grants as PI/Co-PI, plus PI/Co-PI observing programs totaling more than 2 Ms of telescope time (Chandra, XRISM, NuSTAR, XMM-Newton, Swift).

2026: XRISM GO3 — Double narrow iron lines in a dual-AGN candidate (USD 175k)
2026: NuSTAR GO12 — A deep look at the heart of the most luminous quasar (USD 89k)
2026: NuSTAR GO12 — Hard X-ray leverage for XRISM: NuSTAR on 3C 390.3 (USD 64k)
2025: XRISM GO2 — First unambiguous double-peaked Fe K line in AGN (USD 120k)
2018: NuSTAR GO6 — Coronal properties of an exceptionally luminous quasar (USD 90k)

Selected invited talks

2026: Colloquium, University of Nevada, Las Vegas — XRISM/Resolve and the Fe K frontier
2025: FERO11, Prague — Resolving the inner accretion flow of NGC 7213
2025: CfA/Harvard (UMBRELA Dialogues) — The corona–disk connection through thermal reverberation
2023: Colloquia at Milan-Bicocca, Crete, and GSSI L'Aquila — Thermal reverberation in AGN
2019: MIT Kavli Institute — X-ray eclipses in active galactic nuclei

Service & leadership

2026 –: UVEX Science Operations Center & Science Leadership
2025 –: NuSTAR Science Operations Center; NewAthena and IACHEC working groups
2022 – 2024: HEX-P Science Team — Lead, AGN coronae working group
2019 –: TAC review panelist (Chandra, XMM-Newton, XRISM, NuSTAR, Swift, IXPE, NICER); NASA ADSPS panels
2018 –: Referee for Nature Astronomy, ApJ, MNRAS, A&A, and others (30+ papers)

Mentoring

4 PhD students, 2 MSc theses, and 10+ undergraduate and summer interns across Caltech, IRAP, and USJ.