Alexander Rawlings

I am post-doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institüt für Astrophysik (MPA) in Germany working as part of the Origins Excellence Cluster. I completed my PhD at the University of Helsinki in 2025, and was funded by the University of Helsinki Research Foundation. For my PhD thesis I was awarded the Väisälä prize in 2026.

My PhD research largely focused on recoiling supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the sensitivity of SMBH binary orbits to small phase-space perturbations in simulations with Ketju. I’m continuing to work with SMBH simulations in my new position at MPA.