About me

Welcome to my room! I’m an Armenian astrophysicist based in Santiago, Chile, currently pursuing a PhD at the Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos, Universidad Diego Portales. I study high-redshift quasars and their environments, exploring how these distant supermassive black holes shape the galaxies around them.

Beyond astrophysics, I have 5+ years of experience in education as a certified physics content creator and methodological trainer for Armenia’s Ministry of Education. I’ll be sharing some of my approaches to learning, research, and surviving academic chaos here, so don’t wander too far! Outside science, I’m also interested in philosophy, particularly the philosophy of education and science. After my PhD, I plan to stay on the dark side of academia. While some dream of early retirement, I dream of becoming a professor, sharing science with curious minds, and convincing the already retired to fund us a little longer, so we can keep investigating the universe’s most mysterious black creatures.

To learn more about my work and me, feel free to explore the rest of my website!

Latest work

Lyman alpha halos around radio-loud quasars Mapping the cool gas feeding galaxies in the early universe with VLT/MUSE. Searching for radio-loud quasars at z > 5 Finding and characterizing the most extreme jetted quasars in the early universe.

Sidebar photo by k3stalker.