About

I grew up in countryside Belgium near medieval town Tournai. My vocation for astronomy came relatively late, which may be partly assigned to unhelpful Belgian weather. I spent a year in China after high school, and came back for a bachelor in Physics, followed by a master in Space Sciences, at the University of Liège. 

During my master program, I was fortunate to meet Olivier Absil who facilitated an internship at ESO Santiago with Dimitri Mawet and Julien Girard. During the internship, I had the chance to go twice at Paranal to improve the calibration procedure of VLT/NACO. By the end of this amazing 3-month stay, my eyes were filled with stars and I wanted to go on with a PhD. 

In March 2013 I joined the team of Simon Casassus at the University of Chile to start my PhD on the imaging of interactions between circumstellar discs and embedded planets. It later became a PhD in joint supervision with Olivier Absil. As I was based in Chile, I had the chance to go up many times again to Paranal, either to carry out my own observation programs or the ones of collaborators. I graduated from my PhD in July 2018.

In September 2018, I started a new adventure in Australia, as a postdoc in the group of Daniel Price and Christophe Pinte at Monash University, Melbourne. This fruitful experience culminated with the co-organization of an international conference (Great Barriers in Planet Formation), and the onset of several new collaborations. Since September 2021, I have come back to my Alma Mater, to take a F.R.S-FNRS postdoctoral fellowship in the PSILab.