About me: Johannes Buchner

• Astrophysics interests
• Supermassive black hole growth; X-ray surveys
• Obscuration of AGN: “torus”, galaxy-scale
• Obscuration of Gamma-ray burst afterglows
• Astrostatistics interests
• nested sampling algorithms (Buchner 2014)
• Improving X-ray spectral analysis (BXA)
• Modern statistical tools for parameter estimation and spectral model comparison – invited talk HEAD meeting August 2017
• Consulting for papers, Astrostatistics group; astrost.at/istics