Welcome to Mario van den Ancker's homepage!
I am an astronomer working at the European Southern Observatory. My research is aimed at increasing our knowledge of the poorly understood processes of how stars form, how young stars interact with their surrounding material, and how planets eventually form out of this circumstellar material. I'm trying to discover more about how the process of star formation actually proceeds, what the role of circumstellar gas and dust in this process is, and to answer the question how common planet formation around solar-type stars is, by studying pre-main sequence type stars and very young open clusters.
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