I am an Astronomer studying transient phenomena associated with the death of massive stars as well as the thermonuclear explosion of white dwarfs. Recently, I have become quite keen to study supernovae discovered in the hours to days after exploding in order to directly constrain explosion paramters such as the radius of the progenitor star.
I have also worked in collaboration with Francesco Taddia on a number of interacting Type IIn supernovae. This includes a detailed study of the long-lasting SN 2005ip and SN 2006jd (Stritzinger et al. 2012, ApJ, 756, 173), an extended sample of SNe IIn observed by the CSP-I (Taddia et al. 2013, A&A, 555, 10), as well as on the interacting Type Ia+CSM SN 2008J (Taddia et al. 2012, A&A, 545L, 7). In collaboration with F. Taddia and T. Moriya we have recently published detailed studies of the type IIn SN 2013L (Taddia, Stritzinger et al. 2020) and SN 2014ab (Moriya, Stritzinger et al. 2020), respectively.