Elisa is Assistant Professor at the Kavli IPMU. Until 2024 she was also a professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo. She was an undergraduate and Master student at USP and received her PhD from McGill University. She was a Serrapilheira Institute grantee from 2021 to 2025.
Elisa's field of research is in the interface between cosmology, astrophysics, and high energy physics. Her work focuses mostly on studying the dark sector. She is mostly worried about dark matter, focusing on ultra-light dark matter. She is also interested in the late expansion of the universe, studying the phenomenology of dark energy, as well as several topics in early universe cosmology, including the initial singularity, the early evolution of the universe, and reheating. Testing those models using the current observational probes and new observational windows is also part of her research.
