About me
I am a postdoctoral researcher at LESIA - Observatoire de Paris, France, working in the COBREX project led by Prof. Anne-Marie Lagrange. My current research deals with the discovery and characterization of exoplanets and brown dwarfs around young stars through direct imaging. Exploiting the capabilities of state-of-the-art post-processing algorithms, the COBREX project is thoroughly reanalizing a large set of archival observations to look for previously undetected companions and to probe the critical 5-20 au, where most giant planets are thought to form, in the most sensitive way to date. 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 survey results in the light of planet formation models. To achieve these goals, I developed MADYS, a tool for isochronal age determination of young stars and substellar objects. Connecting observations and theory, my work is crucial to investigate the demographics of directly-imaged exoplanets and to understand the processes that created them.
