Rob Fender
INTRODUCTION
Rob Fender's particular research interests are in the areas of accretion and feedback around relativistic objects, mostly advanced via observations with radio telescopes such as AMI-LA, e-MERLIN and MeerKAT (amongst many other areas). As well as targeted studies, he also involved in wide field commensal searches for radio transients. In the past, Rob has: led the national collaboration via which the UK joined the LOFAR project; was awarded in 2011 an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant; was chair of the SKA Transients Science Working Group; and was awarded the 2020 Herschel Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for "investigations of outstanding merit in observational astrophysics", mainly in recognition of my work on accretion around black holes and the connection to relativistic jets.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Radio Astronomy; Accretion Discs; Relativistic Jets
RESEARCH GROUPS AND COLLABORATIONS
Hintze Centre For Astrophysical Surveys; Meerkat; Pulsars, Transients And Relativistic Astrophysics; Rubin-LSST; The Square Kilometre Array (Ska); Gamma-ray Astronomy
PUBLICATIONS