Research and teaching
Jean-Michel works on detecting and characterizing the atmospheres of planets orbiting nearby stars, and teaches Planetary Sciences to bachelor students. The main goal of his research is to answer key questions about the formation and evolution of exoplanets, and to explain the origin and characteristics of our Solar System and the Earth. The most important component of his work focuses on studying exoplanet’s atmospheres to learn about their composition and overall physical properties. He conducts comparative exoplanetology observational programs (e.g., HST, Spitzer, Kepler, VLT). Ultimately, his work provides pioneering techniques that will be used to characterize potentially habitable exoplanets with future capabilities such as JWST and Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs).