Chris Done
Christine Done is a British astrophysicist. She has been a Professor of Physics at Durham University since 2006.
Done graduated from St. Andrews University in 1986 with a first-class degree in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Theoretical Physics. She completed her PhD at Cambridge University in 1989 as a Carnegie Scholar. Her doctoral advisor was Andrew Fabian.
Career and research
Done is a specialist in X-ray astronomy, particularly in relation to black holes. In addition to her faculty position at Durham, she is also a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Kashiwa, Japan, having spent the academic year 2016/2017 on a sabbatical working with the Japanese Space Agency.She received the 2019 George Darwin Lectureship from the Royal Astronomical Society.