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Hi, I am Jacques Kluska, an [FWO](https://www.fwo.be/en/) senior postdoctoral fellow working at [KULeuven](https://fys.kuleuven.be/ster) in Belgium. I am also the lead scientist of the [Belgian VLTI expertise centre](https://fys.kuleuven.be/ster/projects/belgian-vlti-expertise-centre/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](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020A%26A...636A.116K/abstract) and [evolved stars](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020A%26A...642A.152K/abstract). As this technique does not record direct images I develop new ways to reconstruct images ([SPARCO](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26A...564A..80K/abstract), [ORGANIC](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020SPIE11446E..1UC/abstract)) of the observed target that are guided by astrophysical consideration of the source.

Please don't hesitate to contact me via [email](mailto:jacques.kluska@kuleuven.be), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/JacquesKluska), or through [my website](https://www.jacqueskluska.com).