Natalie is a multi-wavelength astronomer at the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France, where she is head of the department and head of the Master's degree “Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science”.
She is also head of the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre. Natalie’s research is focused on the origin and the growth of supermassive black holes seeds, and on constraining the nature of the supra-dense matter inside neutron stars.
As a project scientist for the Athena/X-IFU Instrument Science Center (X-ISC), she is putting together the infrastructure to provide streamlined, robust and innovative software to enable the X-ray community to exploit the ground-breaking data that will come from the X-IFU. Building on the experience garnered from XMM-Newton, data from Athena will revolutionise our view of the hot and energetic Universe!
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Image: An artists view of the intermediate mass black hole HLX-1 in ESO 243-49.