• Star and planet formation
• Accretion disks
• Interacting binaries
• Instrumentation research and technology

• Extra-solar planet detection and characterisation, principally via the transit and microlensing methods
• Variable stars
• High precision photometric methods, principally difference imaging
• Algorithms in Astronomy

• Star formation and young stellar evolution
• Magnetic fields on young stars
• Infrared instrumentation

• Low-mass star formation
• Pre- and proto-brown dwarfs
• Protoplanetary disks formation and evolution
• Jets and molecular outflows
• Centimeter, Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy: Interferometry and Single Dish techniques

• Comets, asteroids, trans-neptunian objects
• Surface properties and evolution of icy bodies
• Cometary activity at large heliocentric distances
• Ultra-deep imaging

• Optical and near-IR interferometry
• Double stars and stellar evolution
• Star formation

• Central Parsecs of AGN
• High-Mass Star Formation
• Evolved Star Mass Loss
• Millimetre and Submillimetre Astronomy

• Magnetic activity in cool stars and stellar clusters
• Optical, NIR and X-ray spectroscopy of stars and circumstellar environments
• T Tauri and pre-main sequence stars
• Stellar surface imaging

• Stellar evolution (post main sequence, RGB, AGB, post-AGB)
• Star formation
• Planetary and cometary atmospheres
• Very high resolution imaging and interferometry

• Isolated neutron stars
• Planet formation
• Stars in the solar neighborhood
• High resolution spectroscopy, precise radial velocity measurements

• Precision Spectroscopy, direct measurement of the cosmic acceleration
• Light Element Abundances (Li and Be): Primordial Nucleosynthesis,
  Galactic Enrichment, Stellar Mixing
• Globular Clusters: light elements anti-correlations
• Chemical Abundance of stars in the local group, in clusters and in the field
• Exo-Planets, planets around evolved stars

• Star formation
• TTauri stars, Pre-main sequence binaries
• Young stellar clusters

• starf ormation in this and nearby galaxies
• cirumstellar matter (disks, outflows)
• near-infrared spectroscopy (particularly of H2)

• Physics of interstellar dust
• IR/mm continuum: imaging
• Formation of stars/galaxies

• Low mass star formation
• Observations of brown dwarfs and planets
• Bioastronomy

• High mass star formation
• Young (proto-)stellar clusters
• Young brown dwarfs
• Circumstellar disks and their evolution

• Star Formation
• Protoplanetary Disks
• Infrared Spectroscopy

• Star formation
• Embedded clusters, in particular massive clusters
• Mass segregation in young clusters
• The IMF (Initial Mass Function)
• Disc population
• The extinction law
• High-resolution (near-infrared) photometry

• Stellar population in galactic globular clusters
• Stellar dynamics in star clusters
• Exotic stellar populations and IMBHs in globular clusters
• Star formation history in star-burst clusters
• Pre Main-Sequence stars

• Star Formation, with emphasis on high-mass stars and clusters
• Radio and (sub)mm observations and modeling

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• Transiting exoplanets; detection and characterisation
• Exoplanet atmospheres (via transmission and emission spectroscopy)
• Time series analysis using advanced Bayesian methods

• Incidence and structure of magnetic fields of massive stars
• Magnetism and pulsations of early type stars
• Stellar surface and circumstellar imaging
• High-resolution, optical spectropolarimetry of stars and their circumstellar environment

Marie-Currie Fellow

Scientific interests:

• Low-Mass and High-Mass Star Formation
• Chemistry of the ISM
• Stellar Winds and Jets
• Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Astronomy

• Extrasolar planet searches
• Gravitational microlensing
• Debris disk evolution
• Robotic telescopes

• Formation and evolution of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs
• Properties of protoplanetary disks
• Optical and infrared wide-field imaging surveys

• Infrared dark clouds
• Initial conditions of high-mass star formation
• mm/submm/cm interferometry
• Far-IR spectroscopy and photometry with Herschel

• Accretion Variability in YSOs
• Stellar Winds and Jets
• Formation of low mass stars and brown dwarfs
• Circumstellar disks

• Open Clusters
• Stellar Characterization of Host planet stars
• Stellar abundances of late-type stars

• Globular and open clusters
• Variable stars
• Gravitational lensing events
• Lightcurves of accreting black holes

• Star Formation
• Protoplanetary Disks and their Evolution
• Accretion Processes in Star Formation and Disk evolution

• Low mass star formation
• Young stars with planet-forming discs

• Tidal Dwarf Galaxies in Interacting galaxies
• Star-forming regions

• Planetary atmosphere
• Exo-planet

• Exoplanet searches
• Precise radial velocity measurements

• Study of comets in millimetre interferometry
• Chemistry and Structure of cometary inner atmospheres
• Structure and thermal properties of cometary nuclei

• Low-mass star-formation
• Gas kinematic and the dissipation of turbulence
• Large scale structure and object identification algorithms
• Astrochemistry
• Early stages of stage formation (starless cores, Class 0, and Class I objects)
• Outflow kinematics and its effect on the accreting material
• Synthetic observations of simulations to provide a "fair" comparison with obsevations