About Markus Kissler-Patig
Born 1970. Markus Kissler-Patig is a German astronomer.
Markus Kissler-Patig (born 21 August 1970, in Switzerland) is a German astronomer, previously based at the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany. In August 2012, he was appointed director of the Gemini Observatory. From 2017 to 2019 he was deputy director for science at ESO and since 2019 he has been the head of science operations at ESA.
He specializes in the study of star clusters and galaxies.
In 1999, he was winner of the Ludwig Biermann Award of the German Astronomical Society in recognition of his work on extragalactic globular cluster systems.
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German astronomer (b.1970)
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Markus Kissler-Patig was born on 21 August 1970 in Switzerland.
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