
Emeritus Professor Diana Worrall
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Emeritus Professor
School of Physics
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Research interests
My primary research interests are in extragalactic astrophysics and X-ray astronomy. Current projects focus primarily on the environments, active nuclei, and jets of radio galaxies, and the multi-wavelength emission of all classes of radio-loud AGN. My publication list is available via a search on the NASA Astrophysics Data System (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/).
I'm Assistant General Secretary of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a scientific editor of MNRAS, and was President of Division D (High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics) of the IAU from 2012 to 2015.
Earlier years were spent as a research scientist in the United States, at the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics at NASA/GSFC, at the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at UC-San Diego, and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). I helped to establish the Chandra X-ray Center where I was a scientist for several years.
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Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
10/06/2025Investigating the Emission Mechanism in the Spatially Resolved Jets of Two z≈3 Radio-loud Quasars
Astrophysical Journal
The JWST View of Cygnus A
Astrophysical Journal
A Multiwavelength Portrait of the 3C 220.3 Lensed System
ApJ
Optical- and UV-continuum Morphologies of Compact Radio Source Hosts
Astrophysical Journal
Disentangling the AGN and Star formation Contributions to the Radio-X-Ray Emission of Radio-loud Quasars at 1 < Z < 2
Astrophysical Journal