Main Research Fields

    My research focuses on the processes of star and planet formation, in particular on the evolution of protoplanetary disks. So far, I have studied in detail the interaction of the forming star with the surrounding protoplanetary disk through accretion of matter. This was done mainly using UV to optical and near-infrared spectroscopical data (e.g. VLT/X-Shooter spectra) on YSOs in different star forming regions and at different evolutionary states, such as classical TTauri stars or transitional disks. While continuing to investigate this process, I am now studying the effects of dynamical interactions in young stellar clusters on the evolution of protoplanetary disks combining optical and infrared data with the future GAIA data release.


    Keywords

    • protoplanetary disk evolution
    • star and planet formation
    • young stellar clusters
    • accretion processes
    • transitional disks

    Ongoing collaborations

    • ESA (Timo Prusti, Jos de Bruijne, Teresa Antoja, Christian Schneider, Pablo Rivière Marichalar, Bruno Merìn, Ignacio Bustamante, Catarina Alves de Oliveira)
    • Leiden University (Eleonora Zari, Anthony Brown, Gráinne Costigan, Lucie Jilkova)
    • ESO (Leonardo Testi, Giacomo Beccari, Suzanne Ramsay, Gaitee Hussain, H. Baobab Liu, Anna McLeod)
    • IoA Cambridge (Giovanni Rosotti, Cathie Clarke)
    • INAF (Antonella Natta, Juan Alcalà, Simone Antoniucci, Davide Fedele, Jets and Disks at INAF, Kazi Rygl, Antonio Frasca, Brunella Nisini)
    • STScI (Massimo Robberto)
    • UNAM (Roberto Galvan-Madrid)
    • MPE (Stefano Facchini)
    • Kavli Institute Peking University (Greg Herczeg)
    • USM (Barbara Ercolano)
    • University of Colorado (Kevin France)
    • University of Milan (Giuseppe Lodato)
    • University of Florida (Nicola Da Rio)

    Publications

    Link to ADS

    Project/mission at ESA

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    Contacts:

    Office: BA131

    Phone: +31(0)71 565 6350

    Mail: cmanara@cosmos.esa.int