About me
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Exeter (UK). My research deals with the discovery and characterization of exoplanets and brown dwarfs around young stars through direct imaging. My expertise encompasses data reduction, the estimation of critical physical parameters (such as age and mass) for both targets and companions, and the statistical interpretation of large surveys in the light of planet formation models. In particular, I have worked on refining the constraints on the occurrence rates of wide-orbit exoplanets by means of the SHINE and GPIES surveys. In addition to this, I developed MADYS, a flexible tool based on isochrone fitting — both to derive the physical properties of young (sub)stellar objects and to estimate the complenetess of direct imaging observations. Connecting observations and theory, my work is crucial to investigate the demographics of directly-imaged exoplanets and to understand the processes that created them.
