INTRO
My research is focused on understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems following the dispersal of the
protoplanetary disc and through the main sequence, when it is expected that only planets and planetesimals remain.
Through events such as collisions, these planetesimals can form observable belts of dust and gas, detectable
with modern astronomical instruments. But when and where do these planetesimals form? How might this vary within and
across different star forming regions? What dominates the evolution of the youngest planetesimal discs, and over
much longer-term timescales, and what controls the morphology of those we can observe?
To explore and answer these questions, I observe, model and analyse the circumstellar dust and gas of populations
of discs and conduct detailed investigations of individual systems primarily with high-resolution millimetre/submillimetre images (i.e., with ALMA and the SMA).
However to probe the different regions of and processes within planetary systems, I work with scattered light images,
near- and mid-infrared spectroscopic data, and multi-wavelength photometry.
I am involved in a number of ongoing projects analysing stellar and disc demographics in young star forming regions,
modelling the morphology of debris discs, and the large ALMA programme, ARKS see Cycle 9 projects here.