Dr. Bruno LEIBUNDGUT Director for Science, European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching
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1989 | Ph.D., University of Basel |
1989-1992 | Postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, |
Cambridge, USA | |
1992-1993 | Postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Berkeley, USA |
1993-1995 | Astronomer in the Science Division of ESO |
1995-1998 | Deputy ESO VLT Programme Scientist |
1998-2001 | Head of the data quality control group at ESO |
2001-2008 | Head of the ESO Office for Science |
since 2008 | Director for Science at ESO |
Mitgliedschaften
International Astronomical Union | |
European Astronomical Society | |
Swiss Society for Astronomy and Astrophysics | |
American Astronomical Society |
Publikationen
Time dilation in the light curve of the distant supernova SN 1995K, Astrophysical Journal, 1996 | |
Riess, Adam G. et al.: Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant, Astronomical Journal, 1998 | |
Cosmological implications of observations of Type Ia supernovae, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2001 | |
Supernovae and Cosmology, General Relativity and Gravitation, 2008 |
Auszeichnungen
Member of the team that was awarded the Science Breakthrough of the Year 1998 | |
Co-recipient of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Prize in Cosmology, 2007 |