Hi, I am Jacques Kluska, an FWO senior postdoctoral fellow working at KULeuven in Belgium. I am also the lead scientist of the Belgian VLTI expertise centre

As an observer, I aim at characterizing and understanding planet formation around young…and, perhaps, evolved stars using high angular resolution imaging. I observe the disks of dust and gas that form planets with infrared interferometry, direct imaging (coronagraphy, polarisation), radio interferometry, and spectroscopic times series.

I am an expert in infrared interferometry that provides very high angular resolution (of the order of a milli-arcsecond which is the width of a hair as seen from 10km away) necessary to resolve the first astronomical unit around young and evolved stars. As this technique does not record direct images I develop new ways to reconstruct images (SPARCO, ORGANIC) of the observed target that are guided by astrophysical consideration of the source.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me via email, Twitter, or through my website.