Francisco Pozo Nunez

Dr. Francisco Pozo Nunez is an astrophysicist based in Heidelberg, Germany, specializing in active galactic nuclei (AGN) and supermassive black holes. Since 2014, he has focused on accretion disks, broad-line regions (BLR), and dust distributions in AGN environments using multiwavelength observations from X-ray to infrared. His work combines photometric reverberation mapping with machine learning techniques to resolve AGN structures and determine black hole masses, while also addressing observational challenges in upcoming surveys like LSST.

• Key Research Areas: AGN variability, reverberation mapping, accretion disk modeling, dust torus geometry, cosmological parameter estimation
• Instrumentation: Automated photometric pipelines, narrowband filter design, robotic telescope operations

Recent publications highlight his contributions to understanding continuum time delays in AGN, optimizing LSST cadence for accretion disk studies, and developing novel methods like the FRADO BLR model. His work has implications for cosmology, including Hubble constant determination. He has contributed to major surveys like EURONEAR and ZTF, and his 2019 Nature Astronomy article provided direct evidence of non-disk optical continuum emission around active black holes.