About Me

I'm a 26-year-old PhD student from France, working in Gravitational Wave Astronomy at a CNRS laboratory. My research is part of the LISA mission, focused on the rapid localization of massive black hole binaries (MBHB) from simulated gravitational-wave data.

More broadly, my work sits at the intersection of astrophysics, signal processing, and scientific computing — and I'm just as drawn to physics for its own sake as I am to the engineering side of it.

class Hugo:
    def __init__(self):
        self.role = "PhD Student in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy"
        self.mission = "LISA"
        self.affiliation = "CNRS, France"
        self.focus = ["MBHB rapid localization", "signal processing", "machine learning"]
        self.also_loves = "fundamental physics & simulation"
        self.language = "Python"

    def current_work(self):
        return "Fast sky localization of massive black hole binaries for LISA 🛰️"

🔭 What I Work On

• 🌌 Gravitational-wave source localization — rapid sky localization of massive black hole binaries (MBHB) for LISA
• 🕳️ EMRI sources — extreme mass-ratio inspiral analysis
• 🧠 Machine learning for astrophysics — inference of galactic models from LISA data
• 📡 Stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds and their cosmological implications

⚛️ Fundamental Physics & Simulation

I have a deep interest in fundamental physics beyond my day-to-day research, and I like building simulations from first principles to understand and visualize it. From the master equations of quantum mechanics and general relativity, I've simulated:

• 🌀 The quantum tunneling effect — 2D wave packet crossing a potential barrier (FDTD)
• 🎯 The quantum double-slit experiment — interference pattern emerging from a single wave packet
• 🕳️ A black hole — light bending and horizon structure from the Schwarzschild/Kerr metric
• 🌉 A wormhole — spacetime geometry and ray-traced visualization from the Einstein field equations

I also animate these simulations to make the underlying physics more intuitive to look at.

🛠️ Tech Stack

📊 GitHub Stats

🌟 Featured Projects

Gravitational Waves Research

My main focus is gravitational waves: I've studied stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds and their cosmological implications, and — across two research internships — the inference of galactic models from LISA detections using machine learning. I build simulations in Python to reproduce the data streams of detectors like LIGO, Virgo, and LISA. Check my pinned repos below for the latest simulations and results.

Quantum & Relativistic Simulations

Simulating fundamental physics from scratch is where I go to just enjoy the subject: the 2D quantum tunneling effect, the quantum double-slit experiment, a black hole, and a wormhole, all built from the master equations of quantum mechanics and general relativity using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) and numerical relativity methods, then animated for visual intuition.

📬 Get in Touch

Open to collaboration, research discussions, or just talking gravitational waves — reach out anytime.

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