A color photo of Milena, a smiling woman with shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a black T-shirt and a denim jacket. She is standing in front of a blurred background of autmnal trees.



I'm a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oskar Klein Centre in Stockholm, working in Prof. Timothy Linden’s astroparticle group. As a high-energy astrophysicist, I explore how the Universe’s most energetic environments can help us understand both astrophysical phenomena and fundamental physics.

I use multimessenger observations — gamma rays, gravitational waves, and neutrinos — to search for signals from elusive dark matter particles (in particular, ALPs and WIMPs), and to study powerful cosmic sources such as gamma-ray bursts and active galactic nuclei. I also help shape the future of space-based gamma-ray astronomy as a co-chair of the Future Innovations in Gamma Rays Science Analysis Group (FIG-SAG).

Before moving to Stockholm, I earned my PhD at the University of Maryland and NASA Goddard.

My homes are scattered across three continents and I am always planning a flight home.

News

April 7, 2026
I will be giving a talk at the Pint of Science festival in Stockholm (May 18-20). Join either my (May 18)or any of the other exciting sessions. You can get tickets for each day/session for free (with a donation option as a choice).
February 17, 2026
I have been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to pursue my research on multimessenger dark matter searches, working within Prof. Shin'ichiro Ando's group at GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam (starting Fall 2026).
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