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Dr Diego Altamirano

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Location

Southampton, Hampshire, England

Travel distance

30 miles travel distance

Role

Academic Lecturer

Summary

Diego is a Research Fellow at Southampton University working on x-ray observations of black holes and neutron stars.

Full biography

My name is Diego Altamirano and I am Argentinean with a touch of Mexican and Italian. I did my undergraduate studies at La Plata University (Argentina) and after that, I moved to Amsterdam to do my PhD under the supervision of Prof. M. van der Klis.

After my PhD defense, entitled "Different Manifestations of Accretion onto Compact Objects", I was granted a 5-years research (Postdoc) position at the University of Amsterdam. In October 2013. I moved to Southampton University as a University Research Fellow, to work on X-ray observations of Black Holes and Neutron Stars, using the best space telescopes available today.

Lectures

Black Holes

The Most extreme objects in our universe

Neutron stars

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