I am a Global Talent Junior Fellow at the Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías. Previously, I obtained my PhD from the Ruprecht-Karls Universitaet Heidelberg, and it was awarded the Wilma-Moser-Prize 2020. After my thesis, I spent five years as a Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University and at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. I am an expert on the theoretical aspects of galaxy formation, the interstellar medium and star formation and feedback. My main goal is to understand how star clusters form and evolve alongside their host galaxies in a hierarchical galaxy assembly context. In particular, I’m interested in (i) the formation of clustered stellar systems over cosmic time, and their interplay with galaxy formation, (ii) constraining the physics involved in massive cluster formation, regardless of the cosmic epoch, (iii) development of sub-grid models of star formation and feedback in numerical simulations of galaxy formation, (iv) expanding our observational knowledge of star clusters in galaxy clusters back in time using imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, (v) mapping the distribution of mass in galaxy clusters using bright star clusters, and exploring constraints for dark matter models. I lead and regularly participate in several international collaborations, and I am an active user of high-performance computing facilities.