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Andrew Young is an Associate Professor in the School of Physics at the University of Bristol. He graduated from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, with a Mathematics degree in 1995, and completed Part III Mathematics in 1996. He then worked with Prof Andy Fabian at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, on X-ray studies of accreting black holes, obtaining his PhD in 1999. He was then a postdoc at the University of Maryland, College Park, working with Prof Andrew Wilson on the first Chandra imaging-spectroscopy of active galactic nuclei, jets, hot spots, and clusters of galaxies. He then moved to a postdoctoral position at MIT, working with Prof Claude Canizares and the Chandra High-Energy Transmission Gratings Spectrometer group on high-resolution spectroscopy of active galactic nuclei. Andrew has been working at the University of Bristol since 2007.

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