Guillem Anglada-Escudé
1979
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Spain
educated at: University of Barcelona
occupation: astrophysicist, astronomer, planetary scientist, academic
award received: Spanish National Team of Science, Nature's 10, Time 100
position held: regidor de l'Ajuntament d'Ullastrell
Guillem Anglada-Escudé (born in Ullastrell, Barcelona in 1979), is a Catalan astronomer. In 2016, he led a team of astronomers under the Pale Red Dot campaign, 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. In 2017, Anglada-Escudé was named amongst the 100 most influential people according to Time, and one of Nature's top 10 scientists of the year 2016. He is currently a research fellow at Institut de Ciències de l'Espai. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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