Clara Dehman

I am a theoretical and computational astrophysicist. I develop large-scale simulations that follow how magnetic fields and heat evolve together inside neutron stars, and how that shapes what our telescopes observe.

Research Associate, Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam

A magnetar’s twisted dipole field, simulated live in your browser.

Research highlights

The MATINS code

3D simulation of a newborn neutron star with a tangled magnetic field

Magnetar formation, helicity, and the chiral magnetic effect

Wandering magnetic axis of a simulated pulsar

Pulsar braking index

Dense matter EOS

Constraints on the dense-matter equation of state

Magnetic stresses and FRBs

Magnetic stresses and fast radio bursts

Bright magnetars

How bright can old magnetars be?

Finite-temperature EOS

Finite-temperature nuclear equation of state

PINNs

Interior–magnetosphere coupling with PINNs

LPTs

Long-period transients