Peter Kosec

Peter studies accretion disk winds in a broad range of astrophysical systems including X-ray binaries, ultraluminous X-ray sources, active galactic nuclei and tidal disruption events. More generally, he is also interested in other aspects of the physics of accretion onto compact objects. To study these phenomena, he uses X-ray spectroscopy, with a focus on high-resolution X-ray spectra. He works with data acquired by X-ray observatories such as XMM-Newton, Chandra, NuSTAR and XRISM. Peter did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge. Afterwards, he was a Chandra HETG research fellow at MIT for 3 years before joining the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory as a NASA Einstein fellow.

PhD in Astronomy (2020), University of Cambridge