Markus Kissler-Patig Explained

Markus Kissler-Patig
Birth Date:	21 August 1970
Birth Place:	Switzerland
Nationality:	German
Fields:	Astronomy
Awards:	Ludwig Biermann Award (1999)

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

External links

• List of Biermann Award winners
• Markus Kissler-Patig's home page

Notes and References

1. Web site: AURA selects Kissler-Patig as new Gemini Observatory Director . 2012-03-23 . 2012-03-24 . 2012-05-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120509102929/http://gemini.edu/node/11801 . live .
2. Web site: Markus Kissler-Patig ESA bio . 2023-08-17 . 2023-08-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230817113835/https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/personal-profiles/markus-kissler-patig . live .
3. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000RvMA...13...13K "Ludwig Biermann Award Lecture: Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems: A new Perspective on Galaxy Formation and Evolution"