Raphael Bendahan-West

I am a PhD student working with Sebastian Marino on understanding the structure of exoKuiper belts and how these are shaped by the presence of planets. My research primarily uses high-contrast imaging data from JWST (MIRI and NIRCam) and the VLT, combined with ALMA observations to study debris disc architecture and planet-disc interactions.

I obtained my MSc by Research at the University of Warwick, where I worked with Grant Kennedy on detecting exocomet transits in spectroscopic data. We developed an automated pipeline using the entire HARPS archive to search for exocomet host stars and compare our results with previous exocomet surveys.

For more details about my research, please visit my personal website.