Members
CURRENT ACCRETION ALLIANCE MEMBERS
Prof Dave Alexander, Durham (Academic Staff)
Interests: AGN identification, demographics, and evolution; Multi-wavelength surveys
Dr Ivan Almeida, Newcastle (PDRA)
Interests: Numerical simulations of accretion; AGN winds and feedback
Carolina Andonie, Durham (PhD student)
Interests: Obscured quasars, spectroscopic surveys.
Steph Campbell, Newcastle (PDRA)
Manthos Charidis, Newcastle (MPhil Student)
Interests: JWST imaging of local AGN
Tiago Costa, Newcastle (Academic Staff)
Interests: AGN feeding and feedback (modelling and numerical simulations)
Danny Dixon, Newcastle (PhD Student)
Interests: Black hole weak lensing in light curves
Prof Christine Done, Durham (Academic Staff)
Interests: Accretion models, and testing them on spectral and variability data from stellar and supermassive black holes. Winds from black holes, theory and observations and AGN feedback
Prof Alastair Edge, Durham (Academic Staff)
Interests: Brightest Cluster Galaxies, AGN feeding, Multi-frequency radio observations of AGN
Emmy Escott, Durham (PhD student)
Interests: [OIII] outflows, radio emission from radio quiet AGN, Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Melissa Ewing, Newcastle (PhD Student)
Interests: X-ray polarisation
Dr Vicky Fawcett, Newcastle (PDRA)
Interests: Quasar demographics; models of quasar structure/evolution
Dr Claire Greenwell, Durham (PDRA)
Interests: AGN demographics; Multi-wavelength surveys
Scott Hagen, Durham (PhD Student)
Interests: Accretion Modelling (SEDS/variability); spectral variability; AGN structure
Houda Haidar, Newcastle (PhD Student)
Interests: Dusty winds in local AGN
Dr Chris Harrison, Newcastle (Academic Staff)
Interests: AGN feedback; multi-wavelength outflow studies; origin of radio emission in AGN
Filip Husko, Durham (PhD student)
Interests: Black hole spin; AGN jet feedback
Dr Adam Ingram, Newcastle (Academic Staff)
Interests: Accretion models and observations; X-ray polarisation
Dr Amy Knight, Durham (PDRA)
Accretion Physics; X-ray binaries; Circumbinary Discs
Prof Cedric Lacey, Durham (Academic Staff)
Interests: Galaxy formation models and simulations; AGN feedback
Devang Liya, Newcastle (PhD Student)
Interests: Spectral Energy Distributions of AGN
Duncan Mackenzie, Durham (PhD student)
Interests:
Jake Mitchell, Newcastle (PDRA)
Dr Leah Morabito, Durham (Academic Staff)
Interests: AGN winds and feedback, Radio emission in AGN, linking AGN emission on different physical scales
Dr Ann Njeri, Newcastle (PDRA)
Interests: Very Long Baseline Interferometry; radio AGN; radio surveys
Patrick O'Neill, Newcastle (PhD Student)
Interests: Milli-second pulsars; X-ray binaries
James Petley, Durham (PhD Student)
Interests: AGN Winds, radio-quiet quasars, Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Prof Tim Roberts, Durham (Academic Staff)
Interests: Ultraluminous X-ray sources, X-ray emission of nearby galaxies
Dr David Rosario, Newcastle (Academic Staff)
Interests: AGN in the infrared; Dusty AGN winds; AGN host galaxies
Dr Tomaru Ryota, Durham (PDRA)
Interests:
Dr Simone Scaringi, Durham (Academic Staff)
Interests: Accretion physics; testing scale-invariance in accreting systems using accreting white dwarfs; variability; populations of compact objects
Rose Shepherd, Newcastle (PhD student)
Interests: Sonification of spectra of quasars and IFU data.
Dr Nicole Thomas, Durham (PDRA)
Interests: AGN in cosmological simulations; radio AGN
Martina Veresvarska, Durham (PhD student)
Interests:
Samuel Ward, Newcastle (PhD Student)
Interests: Numerical simulations of quasar winds; simulation predictions of AGN feedback