Chair: Prof. Francesco Haardt

This group of associated members will work to establish synergy between the other WGs and Athena. It commits to explore the potential synergies between the two missions. It will aid and assist the scientists of the other Astro-WGs in order to establish a deep and close connection between theory and observations of high-redshift QSOs, dual AGN and AGN in dwarfs. Connection with JWST will be also explored.