Protoplanetary disks are circumstellar disks of dust and gas around young (Myr-old) stars and the site of active planet formation.
Ongoing projects:
- Disk Winds – Several JWST-approved programs to characterize disk winds and establish if they can drive accretion. My group also carried out the largest high-resolution optical survey of young stars to search for disk winds, fully reduced spectra are available here
- Alien Earths – NASA-funded astrobiology research program with the main goal of understanding how and where habitable, Earth-like planets form. See the Alien Earths website for additional information and major results
- AGE-PRO – I am the CoPI of a large ALMA program aimed at understanding the evolution of gas and dust disks (NSF funded)
For Past Projects see the following link