The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN investigates the fundamental nature of the strong interaction in collisions of protons or heavy ions that are travelling at almost the speed of light. In these high-energy collisions, heavy (charm and bottom) quarks are created in the early stages of the reaction. Since they are produced in initial hard processes and their numbers are largely unchanged in the later stages of the reaction, they serve as ideal probes to test the validity of quantum color dynamics as well as the properties of a strongly interacting hot and dense medium in a heavy ion collision. Launched in 2015, the LHC's Run-II phase, with the improved ALICE detector system, enabled the most precise heavy quark measurements ever. The candidate's task is to participate in the ALICE measurements of correlations between D-mesons and light hadrons in p-Pb collisions at 5 TeV, with simulation and methodological studies and possibly with data analysis. The results are essential to understand the fragmentation of heavy-flavor, as well as to gain a control over cold nuclear matter effects, thus setting the stage for the upcoming measurements in Pb-Pb collisions. While participating in the project, the candidate contributes to the operation and effectiveness of one of the world's leading experiments.