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.

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