Organised by Hyunjo Kim, TEDxYouth@RadleyCollege held a variety of talks under the theme, 'Event Horizon'. https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/49618 Rob is currently the head of the Astrophysics sub-department within the broader Physics department, at the University of Oxford. His 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 other highlights, he 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 his work on accretion around black holes and the connection to relativistic jets. If you would like to read more about Professor Rob Fender's research and accomplishments, follow this link: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-peop... This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx