Guillem Anglada-Escudé

Guillem Anglada-Escudé (born in Ullastrell, Barcelona in 1979), is a Spanish astronomer.[1][2] In 2016, he led a team of astronomers under the Pale Red Dot campaign,[3] which resulted in the confirmation of the existence of Proxima Centauri b, the closest potentially habitable extrasolar planet to Earth, followed by the publication of a peer-reviewed article in Nature.[4][5][6][7][8] In 2017, Anglada-Escudé was named amongst the 100 most influential people according to Time,[9] and one of Nature's top 10 scientists of the year 2016. [10] He is currently a research fellow at Institut de Ciències de l'Espai.[11]

Guillem Anglada-Escude
Guillem Anglada
Born1979
Barcelona
NationalitySpanish
Alma materUniversity of Barcelona PhD
Known forSearch for extrasolar planets
AwardsTime 100 list of the most influential people in the world (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy, Planetary science, Astrophysics
InstitutionsInstitut de Ciències de l'Espai (2019-)
Queen Mary University of London (2013–2019)

University of Hertfordshire (2014-2015) University of Göttingen (2012-2013)

Carnegie Institution of Washington (2008-2011)
ThesisExperiments and relativistic models for optical astrometry from space. Application to the Gaia mission (2007)
Doctoral advisorJordi Torra, Sergei A. Klioner
Websitewww.ice.csic.es/en/content/4/staff/by-role/0/all
External video
“Lo que significa el descubrimiento de Próxima b”, TEDx Valladolid 2017
“Guillem Anglada-Escudé: Breakthrough Discuss 2017”, Stanford University 2017
“Journey to the Pale Red Dot”, 2017

Publications

References
  1. "NASA Astrobiology Institute".
  2. "Finding Proxima b: the 'planet hunters' searching for signs of alien life around nearby stars".
  3. "Follow a Live Planet Hunt!". European Southern Observatory. 15 January 2016. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  4. "Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star – Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri". European Southern Observatory. 24 August 2016. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  5. Witze, Alexandra (24 August 2016). "Earth-sized planet around nearby star is astronomy dream come true" (PDF). Nature. 536 (7617): 381–382. Bibcode:2016Natur.536..381W. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20445. PMID 27558041. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  6. "Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star". European Southern Observatory. 24 August 2016. Archived from the original on 9 July 2019.
  7. Wall, Mike (24 August 2016). "Found! Potentially Earth-Like Planet at Proxima Centauri Is Closest Ever". Space.com. Archived from the original on 3 July 2019.
  8. Knapton, Sarah (24 August 2016). "Proxima b: Alien life could exist on 'second Earth' found orbiting our nearest star in Alpha Centauri system". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  9. "Natalie Batalha, Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Michaël Gillon".
  10. "Nature's 10".
  11. "Institute of Space Sciences".
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