Our Group
Our independent group is physically located at MPIA and involved in research projects from the search for protoplanets, the study of exoplanetary architectures, the characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres and the demographics of exoplanets. We are in involved and leading key activities to exploit current state-of-the-art ground-based and space-based instruments (VLT/I, LBT, JWST) and prepare the advent of upcoming ones (ELT, Roman). The group is closely collaborating with the APEx and PSF departments at MPIA and key insitutes in Europe and worlwide.
Research Group Leader at MPIA & Directeur de Recherche at CNRS/J.-L. Lagrange-OCA. Expert in high contrast imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets and exoplanetary systems. Project scientist for SPHERE+ at VLT and METIS at ELT. Roman ESA-scientist.
MPIA postdoctoral Fellow working on exoplanets in reflected light in the context of Roman, METIS and PCS at ELT.
MPIA/IMPRS-2025 PhD student working on high-contrast imaging of exoplanetary systems with very and extremely large telescopes in co-supervision with Valentina D’Orazi (Roma Univ.) and Celia Desgrange (ESO).
UCA/OCA/Poincare PhD student working on the multi-modal exploration of the diversity of giant exoplanet atmospheres in co-supervision with Mickael Bonnefoy (IPAG).
UCA/OCA/Poincare PhD student working on exploring the diversity of ultra hot and young jupiters through infrared high-resolution spectroscopy at VLT and ELT in co-supervision with Mamadou N’Diaye (OCA/Lagrange), Viven Parmentier (OCA/Lagrange) and Andrea Chiavassa (OCA/Lagrange). Member of the ELT/ANDES consortium.
UChile/UCA Cotutella PhD working on the search for and the chaarcterization of young protoplanets using large telescopes in co-supervision with Laura Perez (UChile) and Mickael Bonnefoy (IPAG).
AMU PhD student working on high-resolution spectroscopy of young Jupiters with VLT/HiRISE in co-supervision with Arthur Vigan (LAM).
MPIA Master student working on the implementation of circumplanetary disk contribution in forward modelling analysis in the context of the young planetary mass companion 2M1207b between April and June 2025.
Associated and former PhD students & Postoctoral researchers
ANR/MIRAGES Postdoc at LIRA/Paris. Former PhD student working on the exploration of the atmospheres of exoplanets and brown dwarfs in spectroscopy at VLT and ELT between 2022 and 2025 co-supervised with Pierre Baudoz (LIRA), Mickael Bonnefoy (IPAG) and Patricio Rojo (UChile). Member of the MORFEO-MICADO consortium, Co-developper of the FormosA Forward-Modelling code.
ESO Fellow in Chile. Former PhD student working on a path forward disks and exoplanets imaging with SPHERE at VLT between 2021 and 2024 co-supervised with Julien Milli (IPAG).
NASA/Goddard Postdoc Fellow. Former PhD student working on the characterization of young Jupiters and Exoplanetary-analogs between 2018 and 2021 co-supervised with Mickael Bonnefoy (IPAG). Developer of the FormosA forward-modelling code.
Mathematics teacher. UGA PhD student co-supervised with Anne-Marie Lagrange between 2014 and 2017 working on high-contrast imaging of exoplanets with SPHERE at VLT.
Data Scientist at Schneider Electric. UGA PhD on the demographics of young giant planets co-supervised with Anne-Marie Lagrange between 2011 and 2014. Postodoctoral positions at IREx/Montreal and IPAG/Grenoble.
CNRS staff at IPAG/Grenoble. UGA PhD student co-supervised with Anne-Marie Lagrange between 2007 and 2010. ANR/GuEPARD postdoc in 2012.
