Myriam Benisty's research focuses on studying the birthplace and conditions for planet formation as well as on searching for newborn planets. She currently leads the European Research Council Consolidator grant 'PROTOPLANETS'.
As director of the Planet and Star Formation Department, she combines state-of-the-art observations from space and ground-based instrumentation at multiple wavelengths with theoretical models of planet-forming environments. She is involved in the preparation of the next generation instrumentation, including the METIS and PCS instruments for the ELT.
