Curriculum Vitae

On this page, you will find more details about my CV, including my publications, observational proposals and my education.
If you prefer, feel free to download the PDF version (last update: June 2023).

01

Education & Academic positions

2024 - ongoing
GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Postdoctoral researcher in planet formation
Supervisor: Dr. Anders Johansen
2020 - 2024
Astro Group, University of Exeter, UK
PhD in Astrophysics / dust coagulation, porosity and ice composition
Thesis: Exploring the interplay between dust and water ice during planet formation
Supervisor: Dr. Sebastiaan Krijt
2022-2023
European Southern Observatory (ESO Garching), Germany
Visitor studentship / dust continuum observation with ALMA
Supervisor: Dr. Enrique Macías
2018 - 2020
University of Liège, Belgium
Master in Space Sciences / specialisation in exoplanet composition and formation
Thesis: Constraining the dynamics and masses of the TRAPPIST-1 planets with the transit timing variations method
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Gillon
With highest distinction: summa cum laude
2019
University of Oulu, Finland
Erasmus international exchange / northern lights physics
2015 - 2018
University of Liège, Belgium
Bachelor in Physics

02

Publications

First-author papers

Paper title Authors & link
Burned to ashes: How the thermal decomposition of refractory organics in the inner protoplanetary disc impacts the gas-phase C/O ratio Houge et al. (2025b) ↗
Smuggling unnoticed: Towards a 2D view of water and dust delivery to the inner regions of protoplanetary discs Houge et al. (2025a) ↗
Surviving the heat: multiwavelength analysis of V883 Ori reveals that dust aggregates survive the sublimation of their ice mantles Houge, Macías & Krijt (2024) ↗
Collisional evolution of dust and water ice in protoplanetary discs during and after an accretion outburst Houge & Krijt (2023) ↗

Co-author papers

Here are some papers on which I am a co-author.

Paper title Authors & link
The First JWST View of a 30-Myr-old Protoplanetary Disk Reveals a Late-stage Carbon-rich Phase Long, Pascucci, Houge et al. (2025) ↗
Coordinated Space- and Ground-based Monitoring of Accretion Bursts in a Protoplanetary Disk: Establishing Mid-infrared Hydrogen Lines as Accretion Diagnostics for JWST/MIRI Tofflemire et al. (2025) ↗
Into the thick of it: ALMA 0.45 mm observations of HL Tau at a resolution of 2 au Guerra-Alvarado et al. (2024) ↗

03

Conferences / Workshops

Seminar at Kees Dullemond's group (talk)
July 2025
ITA Heidelberg, Germany
Chemcomp workshop #2 - collaborative coding of chemcomp 2.0 (final integration and coordination)
July 2025
MPIA Heidelberg, Germany
Gordon Research Conference (GRC) - Origin of Solar Systems
June 2025
South Hadley, MA, USA
Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) - Constraining the Fundamental Building Blocks of Planets (talk)
June 2025
South Hadley, MA, USA
chemcomp workshop (ideator, organiser & talk)
April 2025
Copenhagen, Denmark
STARPLAN Retreat (talk)
April 2025
Falkenberg, Sweden
A sharper view: Celebrating 3 years of JWST observations of planet-forming disks (poster)
February 2025
Ringberg Castle, Germany
Seminar at the Niels Bohr Insitute star formation group (talk)
January 2025
Copenhagen, Denmark
Born in Fire conference (talk)
September 2024
Santiago, Chile
JDISCS meeting (talk)
December 2023
virtual
Invited seminar at STARPLAN (talk)
September 2023
Copenhagen, Denmark
SPIDI23 conference – The inner disk of young stars: accretion, ejection, and planet formation (poster)
May 2023
Corsica, France
AlumNight (ideator, organiser & talk)
April 2023
ULiège, Belgium
Alien Earths All-Hands Meeting
February 2023
virtual
Seminar at Til Birnstiel’s group (talk)
December 2022
LMU, Germany
Exeter EMPS PGR Conference (talk & poster)
April 2022
University of Exeter, UK
The Volatile Content of Planets that Form Early
November 2021
virtual
Sagan Exoplanet Summer Virtual Workshop
July 2021
virtual
UKRI STFC Introductory Course in Astronomy (poster)
January 2021
virtual
Five years after HL Tau: a new era in planet formation
December 2020
virtual
Planetesimal Formation Workshop
November 2020
virtual
TRAPPIST-1 conference
June 2019
ULiège, Belgium

04

Teaching & Mentoring

  • 2025: Co-supervision of a MSc student project along with Troels Haugbølle and Michael Küffmeier
  • 2021 - 2023: Mentorship of MSc students supervised by S. Krijt in their final projects
  • 2021 - 2022: Mentorship for prospective PhD students students from the University of Liège
  • 2019 - 2020: Mentorship for international students at the University of Liège
  • 2018: Teaching assistant in Electromagnetic Physics
  • 2017 - 2022: Personal teaching / Physics and mathematics
  • 2016 - 2019: Mentorship for 1st year student at the University of Liège

05

Community work

  • Referee for Astronomy and Astrophysics and The Astrophysical Journal
  • 2024 - ongoing: Organizer of the PFM meeting at the GLOBE Institute (~15-20 people)
  • 2022 - 2023: Organizer of the Beer Friday social event at ESO Garching (~30 people)
  • June 2023: Representative of the European Southern Observatory at the Atomiade event (Berlin)
  • December 2022: Representative of the European Southern Observatory at the ESO Days event (Bruxelles)

06

Awards

  • Best Astro Plot of the Week
      @AstroPlot, 2023
  • 2nd prize for best poster
      Exeter EMPS PGR Conference, 2022
  • 1st prize for best poster
      UKRI STFC Introductory Course in Astronomy, 2021
  • Master's degree with summa cum laude
      University of Liège, Belgium, 2020

07

Outreach

  • 2022: Organiser of Pint of Science in Exeter (~100 people in three days)
  • 2020: Co-organizer of the livestream: “The Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter” (>1000 viewers)