Doctoral Thesis

I defended my PhD thesis titled “Supermassive black hole dynamics in massive early-type galaxies” on November 28th 2025. The thesis can be found here for your perusal. If you are interested in any of the codes used to generate the figures in the thesis, they can be found in the git repository.

First-author papers discussed in the thesis

• Reviving stochasticity: uncertainty in SMBH binary eccentricity is unavoidable
• Identifying supermassive black hole recoil in elliptical galaxies
• Caught in the act: detections of recoiling supermassive black holes from simulations

Second-author papers discussed in the thesis

• KETJU — resolving small-scale supermassive black hole dynamics in GADGET-4
• The supermassive black hole merger-driven evolution of high-redshift red nuggets into present-day cored early-type galaxies