About Me

Andrés Ordorica is the Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, based at the Institute for Astronomy located at the historic Royal Observatory Edinburgh. His academic journey includes positions at Leicester, MIT, the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and Queen Mary, University of London. He specializes in the study of quasars, which are black holes at the centers of galaxies, and observational cosmology, focusing on large-scale sky surveys and the Virtual Observatory.