Numerical simulations
Cosmological simulations are essential for testing dark matter physics because they are the only practical way to model the nonlinear, multi-physics process of structure formation, while enabling controlled comparisons where only the dark matter model is changed. I analyze state-of-the-art suites such as AIDA-TNG to quantify how alternative dark matter scenarios modify haloes, galaxies, and their surrounding gas and HI. By comparing matched samples across mass and redshift, I try to differentiate the impact of dark matter microphysics from baryonic physics, and quantify where (and on what scales) these models deviate from CDM.
- Alternative dark-matter models (e.g., self-interactions, warm dark matter)
- Halo/galaxy environment statistics (visulisations, density profiles, mass function ...)
- HPC workflows for large simulation datasets
