Guillem Anglada-Escudé (born 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]
Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; Arriagada, Pamela; Tuomi, Mikko; Zechmeister, Mathias; Jenkins, James S.; Ofir, Aviv; Dreizler, Stefan; Gerlach, Enrico; Marvin, Christopher J.; Reiners, Ansgar; Jeffers, Sandra V.; Butler, R. Paul; Vogt, Steven S.; Amado, Pedro J.; Rodríguez-López, Cristina; Berdiñas, Zaira M.; Morin, Julien; Crane, Jeffrey D.; Shectman, Stephen A.; Thompson, I. B.; Díaz, M.; Rivera, Eugenio; Sarmiento, Luis F.; Jones, Hugh R. A. (2014). "Two planets around Kapteyn's star: a cold and a temperate super-Earth orbiting the nearest halo red dwarf"(PDF). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 443 (1): L89–L93. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slu076.
