PhD student @ UVic thinking about astrophysics 🔭
Particularly the intersection of nuclear physics and fluid dynamics at the end of a star's life 💫
Is that all I think about 🤔
If you want to check out my work, check out this reading list:
Issa & Herwig. January 2026. Pre-Supernova O-C Shell Mergers Could Produce More 44Ti than the Explosion. Submited to The Astrophysical Journal. Access link
Issa et al. January 2026. 3D Macro Physics and Light Odd-Z Element Production in O-C Shell Mergers: Implications for 40K Production and Radiogenic Heating Inventories of Rocky Exoplanets. Published in The Astrophysical Journal. Access link
Issa et al. January 2026. Impact of 3D Macrophysics and Nuclear Physics on the P-Nuclei in O–C Shell Mergers. Published in The Astrophysical Journal. Access link
Convective-reactive nucleosynthesis in oxygen-carbon shell mergers. August 2025. Master's Thesis @ UVic. Access link
I also have contributed to the following papers:
Battino et al. July 2026 Impact of 3D macro physics and nuclear physics on the s-process during He-flashes in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars. The European Physical Journal A. Access link
Fryer et al. January 2026 Propagating Uncertainties from Nuclear Physics to Gamma-Rays in Core Collapse Supernovae. Preprint. Access link
Fiori et al. January 2026 Statistical Auroral Absorption Model Parameterized by AE Index. Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. Access link
Nassar et al. October 2023. Intelligent Pointing Increases the Fraction of Cloud-Free CO2 and CH4 Observations from Space. Frontiers in Remote Sensing. Access link