My field of research is the formation and evolution of planetary systems. In particular, I'm working on debris disks (dust and planetesimal disks around main sequence stars), exozodiacal dust (warm and hot dust around main sequence stars), and their connection to and interaction with possible planets in these systems. My work focuses on (but is not limited to) imaging observations of debris disks in all wavelength regimes, near- and mid-infrared interferometric observations of exozodiacal dust, and the simultaneous modeling of all available data of debris disks (mostly using analytical models). I'm an active member of the Herschel/DUNES team and the EXOZODI team. As LBTI instrument scientist I am interested in any application of this unique telescopes and its instruments.