My research interests lie in the field of theoretical particle physics, and more specifically in beyond the Standard Model (SM) topics. This area of physics aims to provide explanations for some of the shortcomings of the SM, such as the non-vanishing mass of neutrinos or the origin of dark matter. I am interested in both the theoretical and phenomenological features of the field, as well as the model building aspects of it.

In particular, part of my research focuses on one class of models that investigate potentially new physics, namely grand unified theories (GUTs). The idea behind GUTs is based on the fact that at much higher energy scales, the three SM interactions (electromagnetic, weak and strong) unify into a single one. Mathematically, this implies that physics at the high scale is described a single, unified gauge group, such as SU(5), SO(10) or E6. The phenomenology of GUTs can in principle be a very rich one, since they not only predict the existence of new particles with potentially exciting implications, but also proton decay. However, the downside of these theories stems from the fact the energy scale at which they are valid is generally very high, many orders of magnitude above energies present in modern-day hadron colliders. As a result, testing GUTs is a rather difficult task which motivates the search for lower-scale signatures of these theories.