Colloquium
Plato's view on supermassive black hole binaries

Nicholas Jannsen is a new Staff Observer at the ING on part-time until April. He is also a postdoc at KU Leuven, in Belgium, working with Prof. Conny Aerts on simulations for the upcoming ESA PLATO space mission. His work is tightly interlinked with the performance assessment and pipeline development of the mission. His own research focuses on optimising the overall yield of the PLATO Complementary Science program through highly realistic photometric simulations. While his past research focused on pulsating stars more massive and/or evolved than our Sun, he is now more broadly working within the realm of discovery: either on extra-galactic phenomena such as sub-parsec supermassive black hole binaries, or cool worlds such as extrasolar satellites around Sun-like stars (potential “Pandora” exomoons).