Welcome!

My name is Simone Scaringi and this is a picture of my shadow taken at Paranal observatory. I am an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy at Durham University. I have previously held faculty postitions at Texas Tech University and at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. I held a Humboldt Fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a FWO Pegasus Marie Curie Fellow in the Institute of Astronomy at KU Leuven, and before that I was a postdoctoral resarcher in the Department of Astrophysics at Radboud University Nijmegen. I completed my BSc in Maths with Astronomy, and obtained my MPhil and my PhD in the Astronomy Group at the University of Southampton.

My current research is focused on testing whether accretion physics is universal across different types of accreting systems on all mass and size scales. I mostly study observations of accreting compact objects (with black hole, neutron star or white dwarf accretors), supermassive black holes at the centre of Active Galactic Nuclei, and young-stellar objects. I am also very interested in machine learning applied to astronomical datasets, and am currently focused on Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks. I am thus mostly an observational astronomer, but occasionally attempt some theoretical modelling.

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