Research and Publications

Research Directions

Below is a thematic selection of my research contributions. For a full list, see my INSPIRE-HEP profile.

Black Holes & the Fuzzball Paradigm

Exploring horizonless microstate geometries as a resolution to the black hole information paradox.

  1. The Fuzzball Paradigm — arXiv:2412.09495 (Invited chapter, in "The Black Hole Information Paradox", Springer Singapore, July 2025)
  2. The Universality of Black Hole Thermodynamics — arXiv:2305.12003 (Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 32 (2023) 14, 2341003)
  3. Contrasting the Fuzzball and Wormhole Paradigms — arXiv:2111.05295 (Turk. J. Phys. 45 (2021) 6, 281–365)

Extremely Compact Objects (ECOs)

Studying thermodynamic and quantum signatures of ECOs and how they mimic classical black holes.

  1. The Universal Thermodynamic Properties of ECOs — arXiv:2402.13166 (Class. Quantum Grav. 41 (2024) 23, 235001)
  2. Extreme Gravity: Higher-Derivative Corrections to ECOs — arXiv:2505.09049 (Preprint)

D1-D5 CFT & Holography

Analyses of operator lifting, spectrum structure, and microstate counting in the D1-D5 system.

  1. Lifting of Superconformal Descendants — arXiv:2311.00052 (JHEP 04 (2024) 129)
  2. Lifting of Two-Mode States — arXiv:2309.03321 (JHEP 01 (2024) 183)
  3. Universal Lifting in the D1-D5 CFT — arXiv:2208.07409 (JHEP 10 (2022) 148)

Novel Gravitational Phenomena

Phenomena like electromagnetic entrapment and modifications to gravity in exotic regimes.

  1. Electromagnetic Entrapment in Gravity — arXiv:2312.11607 (JHEP 03 (2024) 046)

Preprints & Exploratory Ideas

Speculative or ongoing work that opens new directions around entropy and quantum gravity.

Speculative or ongoing work that opens new directions around entropy and quantum gravity.

  1. Redefining Entanglement Entropy — arXiv:2204.00192 (Preprint)