The focus of my research group is on physics beyond the standard model and cosmology. We are trying to figure out why there is more matter than anti-matter in the Universe, what dark matter is made of and what kind of new physics the LHC might detect.

Some of the topics we are currently working on are:

– Axions and gravitational waves

– Using gravitational waves to probe dark sectors

– The relaxion mechanism as solution to the hierarchy problem

– Composite dark matter sectors and their phenomenology

– Long lived particles and non-standard collider signatures at the LHC

The AG Schwaller is part of PRISMA+/++, the Cluster of Excellence awarded by the DFG. Moreover, our work is supported by the Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.