Curriculum Vitae

On this page, you will find more details about my CV, including my publications, observational proposals and my education.

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
How leaky? A large parameter study of leaky dust traps to quantify the transport of pebbles and ice in protoplanetary discs Houge et al. (2026) ↗
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
JWST/MIRI Hydrocarbon and Water Absorption in the Wind of a Young Disk: Signatures of Pebble Drift and Carbon Grain Sublimation Colmenares et al. (2026) ↗
Cosmic Cascades: How Disk Substructure Regulates the Flow of Water to Inner Planetary Systems Krijt et al. (2025) ↗
Dust and water in V883 Ori: Relics of a retreating snowline Wang et al. (2025) ↗
Locked in ice: how pebble drift and volatile entrapment can significantly impact carbon and oxygen ratios in evolving protoplanetary discs Williams et al. (2025) ↗
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

Successful observing proposals

  • JWST Cycle 5: Integrating Pebble Drift with Disk Chemistry: A New Framework for Interpreting MIRI Water Lines (co-I, PI: Jenny Calahan)
  • JWST Cycle 4: Population Study of Chemistry in the First Million Years of Planet Formation: A MIRI Survey of Embedded Disks in Ophiuchus (co-I, PI: Ke Zhang, 68.5 hours)
  • JWST Cycle 4: Linking the outer structure with inner chemistry in disks around the most common planet hosts (co-I, PI: Feng Long, 21.4 hours)
  • JWST Cycle 4: Can accretion explain the carbon dichotomy in planet-forming disks? (co-I, PI: Maria Jose Colmenares Diaz, 30.4 hours)
  • JWST Cycle 3: Snowline pulsations and UV photo-chemistry in planet-forming regions(co-I, PI: Andrea Banzatti, multi-epochs of DQ Tau)

04

Conferences / Workshops

STARPLAN Retreat (talk)
April 2026
Ystad, Sweden
Planet formation meeting (talk)
March 2026
Copenhagen, Denmark
From Galaxies to Planets: an elemental journey (talk)
February 2026
Ringberg Castle, Germany
M-dwarf meeting
February 2026
Lund, Sweden
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

05

Teaching & Mentoring

  • 2026: Supervision of a MSc student from Leiden University along with Nienke Van Der Marel
  • 2025-2026: Supervision of a MSc student from NBI along with Anders Johansen and Michiel Lambrechts
  • 2025-2026: Supervision of a MSc student from NBI along with Troels Haugbølle and Giulia Perotti
  • 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

06

Community work

  • 2026: Referee for the public code MCDUST with the Journal of Open Source Software
  • 2024 - ongoing: Organizer of the PFM meeting at the GLOBE Institute (~15-20 people)
  • Referee for Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Astrophysical Journal, and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • 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)

07

Awards

  • Grant for the art project Planetary Dust Machine (€20,000)
      Art Hub & Globe Institute (2026)
  • 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

08

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)