Main Research Fields

I'm Dr. Bert Vander Meulen and I study Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) in X-rays. I'm mostly interested in the AGN torus, i.e. the cold gas and dust causing obscuration and reflection, and more complex models for obscuring matter in RQ AGNs. I model X-ray reprocessing in circumnuclear media using the radiative transfer code "SKIRT", and I apply these simulation results to observational X-ray data from XRISM, XMM-Newton, IXPE, NuSTAR, and Chandra.

I'm the leading author of the X-ray functionalities of the 3D SKIRT code, and I'm involved in different projects using the SKIRT code to model X-ray data of AGN, XRBs, galaxies, stars, and more.

Feel free to get in touch via Bert.VanderMeulen [at] esa.int, or get started with this X-ray SKIRT tutorial.