From a biased perspective
Quasars, Mergers, and Planet-Forming Discs
Elia Pizzati · Ph.D. Thesis · 2025
Welcome to this website. Here you can download each chapter of my thesis.
Full Thesis
Chapter 1 — Introduction
Chapter 2 — Revisiting the Extreme Clustering of z ≈ 4 Quasars with Large Volume Cosmological Simulations
Chapter 3 — A unified model for the clustering of quasars and galaxies at z ≈ 6
Chapter 4 — “Little red dots” cannot reside in the same dark matter halos as comparably luminous unobscured quasars
Chapter 5 — Tracing individual black hole growth histories and quasar lightcurves in an N-body Universe
Chapter 6 — Towards inference of overlapping gravitational wave signals
Chapter 7 — Constraining turbulence in protoplanetary discs using the gap contrast: an application to the DSHARP sample
Propositions