About

My vocation for astronomy came relatively late, which may be partly assigned to unhelpful Belgian weather. After a Star Wars marathon left me with more questions about life in our Galaxy than known exoplanets back then, I undertook 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 continue with a PhD. 

In March 2013 I joined the team of Simon Casassus at the University of Chile for a PhD on imaging of interactions between circumstellar discs and embedded planets, which became a joint-supervision thesis with Olivier Absil. This gave me the chance to observe many times at the VLT. After graduating from my PhD in July 2018, I went on another adventure as a postdoc in the land down under. I joined the team of Daniel Price and Christophe Pinte at Monash University (Melbourne), and further sharpened my skills in planet-disc observation and modeling.

In September 2021, I returned to my alma mater for a FNRS postdoctoral fellowship. I joined the PSILab, and turned lead developer of the high-contrast imaging package VIP. In September 2023, I paused the fellowship for a postdoc position at KU Leuven dedicated to JWST data analysis, and started diving into the reduction of MIRI-MRS, NIRCam and NIRSpec data on protoplanetary disks.

In December 2025, I started a permanent staff scientist position at the IRFU institute of CEA Paris-Saclay. My main activities continue to revolve around planet-forming disks, prototoplanet and circumplanetary disk detection and characterization using JWST, and (soon) using the future workhorse of thermal infrared astronomy - the Extremely Large Telescope first-light instrument METIS.