Staff Profile
I am an Observational Cosmologist and Ernest Rutherford Fellow at Â鶹´«Ã½.
I completed my PhD at The University of Nottingham in 2016. I then moved to Durham University (2016-2023), including a Royal Society Short Industry Fellowship (2021 - 2022) where I took a placement at the Biotech company concr (https://concr.co). I started at Â鶹´«Ã½ March 2024.
I have appeared on BBC4's The Sky At Night, for my discovery of an ultra-massive blackhole. I have also been interview on LBC with Andrew Marr, GB News and Times radio.
My personal website is here: https://jamesnightingale.net
Cosmology: My cosmology research uses gravitational lensing to study the most massive black holes, the smallest dark matter clumps and the most distant Universe. I’m the lead developer of , open source software for analyzing gravitational lenses. You can read more about my Cosmology research on my personal website .
Cancer: I collaborate with healthcare researchers on applying the statistical techniques I developed for Cosmology to improve cancer treatments. This uses the statistics software that I lead development of. You can read more about my cancer research on my personal website .
A list of publications I have authored or co-authored can be found https://jamesnightingale.net/publications/