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Published

3 November 2026

Portrait of Professor Andrew Young

I am a Professor in the School of Physics at the University of Bristol. I completed my PhD at Cambridge with Andy Fabian on X-ray studies of accreting black holes, then held Chandra postdoctoral positions at the University of Maryland (with Andrew Wilson) and MIT (with Claude Canizares). I joined Bristol in 2007.

Research

My research interests include numerical and observational astrophysics focused on accreting black holes. The numerical work involves the development of general relativistic models of the time-dependent spectra of accretion flows with different disc, corona, and spacetime geometries. The observational work concerns the analysis of X-ray data from accreting black holes using telescopes such as XMM-Newton, Chandra, and NuSTAR.

Notes on relativistic accretion discs and related software are collected in the project wiki.

Contact

  • Email:
  • Post: HH Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TL, UK
  • ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3626-9151
  • University profile: University of Bristol homepage