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12 Facts About Didier Queloz

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Didier Queloz is the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a professor at the University of Geneva.

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Didier Queloz is at the origin of the “exoplanet revolution” in astrophysics when as part of his PhD at the University of Geneva, with his supervisor, they discovered the first exoplanet around a main sequence star.

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Didier Queloz participated and conducted programs leading to the detection of hundred planets, including breakthrough results.

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Didier Queloz published a reference paper describing how to disentangle stellar activity from a planetary signal using proxies, including new algorithms that have become standard practice in all planet publications based on precise Doppler spectroscopy data.

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Didier Queloz received the 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award of Basic Sciences for developing new astronomical instruments and experimental techniques that led to the first observation of planets outside the solar system.

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In 2003 Didier Queloz, recently appointed at a faculty position, with his research team pioneered and established the combination of these techniques by first measuring bulk density of OGLE transiting planets.

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Didier Queloz took the lead in the spectroscopic follow-up effort of the WASP consortium and the CoRoT space mission.

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Didier Queloz's role was decisive during system tests in Europe and to establish the facility at the Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.

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At the time Didier Queloz moved to the University of Cambridge, he essentially focused his activity to set up a comprehensive research activity directed to the detection of Earth-like planets and life in the Universe, and to further develop the exoplanet community in UK.

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In parallel to his research and teaching activities, Didier Queloz has participated in numerous documentaries, movies, articles, and TV and radio interviews to share the excitement, and to explain results and promote interest in science in general.

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Didier Queloz was a visiting scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research in 2019.

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Didier Queloz has over 400 scientific publications, attracting over 50,000 citations.

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