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Guillem Anglada-Escudé (born in Ullastrell, Barcelona in 1979), is a Catalan 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
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

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Guillem Anglada Escudé (Ullastrell, Barcelona, 1979), es profesor de Astrofísica en la Universidad Queen Mary de Londres.[1]



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