Dominika Itrich investigates young, low-mass stars using infrared and optical spectroscopy. In particular, she is interested in how environmental conditions, like irradiation field or metallicity, impact early evolution of stars and their protoplanetary disks. Dominika received her PhD in 2023 from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the European Southern Observatory. In 2024, she joined Alien Earths team at the University of Arizona.