Main Research Fields

Protoplanetary discs are large structures of dust and gas that naturally form around young stars. They are the birth-sites of planets and therefore their study is key to understand how our Solar System was born. I have studied protoplanetary discs using a variety of tools including imaging polarimetry at near-infrared wavelengths with the VLTs, sub-millimeter interferometric with ALMA, and radiative transfer models with MCFOST. In the past I have also focussed in discs showing (in?)direct evidences of planet-disc interaction, such as dust-depleted inner cavities and/or spiral structures. More recently, I have used the astrometric measurements provided by Gaia to identify members of young stellar regions using machine learning (non-supervised) clustering algorithms.