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.

Juan de la Cierva Fellow, University of Alicante

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