Kirpal "Paul" Nandra is a British physicist and the current director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. [1]
He was Professor of Astrophysics and Head of the Astrophysics Group at Imperial College London. [2]
He is noted as a member of the X-ray group and studies the astrophysics of extreme environments, specifically those close to black holes in active galactic nuclei. He has written or co-written numerous papers on this topic. [3] [ better source needed ]