My main research interest is in the high contrast imaging of planetary systems, specifically the study of extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks of various ages.
Circumstellar disks are modern day alchemists. They transform dust into astronomical gold: planets. But many specifics of planet formation remain a mystery. I am driven by several key questions: What is the structure of protoplanetary disks? Can we reproduce all observable of a disk with a single model encompassing the innermost and outermost regions, the deepest layers and the thin surface? How and where in the disk do grains grow to form planets? On what timescale? Through ambitious, massive and coherent model fitting of observations coming from the best international telescope facilities (HST, ALMA, GPI, SPHERE) paired with tailored and optimised radiative transfer codes, I aim to look for trends in disk properties (estimated lifetimes, dust/gas masses, internal densities etc.) to help distinguish between planet formation models.