Background
Escudé was born in 1979, in Ullastrell, Spain.
2017
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, USA
Michael Gillon, Wendy Cino, Guillem Anglada Escude, Natalie Batalha and Celso Batalha attend the 2017 TIME 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
2015
Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, UK
In 2015, Guillem was appointed Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.
2016
Spain
Guillem Anglada-Escudé
2016
Madrid, Spain
Astronomer Guillem Anglada-Escudé
2017
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, USA
Professor Guillem Anglada Escude attends the 2017 Time 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2017 in New York City. (April 24, 2017 - Source: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images North America)
2017
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, USA
Professor Guillem Anglada Escude attends the 2017 Time 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2017 in New York City. (April 24, 2017 - Source: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images North America)
2017
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, USA
Professor Guillem Anglada Escude attends the 2017 Time 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2017 in New York City. (April 24, 2017 - Source: Ben Gabbe/Getty Images North America)
2017
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, USA
Guillem Anglada Escude attends the 2017 TIME 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
2017
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, USA
Michael Gillon and Guillem Anglada Escude attend the 2017 TIME 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
2017
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, USA
Michael Gillon, Wendy Cino, Guillem Anglada Escude, Natalie Batalha and Celso Batalha attend the 2017 TIME 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
2017
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, USA
Guillem Anglada Escude, Wendy Cino and Michael Gillon attend the 2017 TIME 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
2017
Madrid, Spain
Guillem Anglada-Escude attends the 'Optimistas comprometidos awards' photocall at COAM on May 22, 2017 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Eduardo Parra/Getty Images)
2017
Spain
Guillem Anglada-Escudé ÁLVARO GARCÍA
2017
Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, UK
Astronomer Guillem Anglada-Escudé Jay Brooks
Guillem Anglada Escudé
Guillem Anglada Escudé
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
Guillem Anglada-Escude devoted his Ph.D. thesis in astrophysics (2007) at University of Barcelona, Spain to the Gaia Space Astrometry mission of the European Space Agency.
Escudé was born in 1979, in Ullastrell, Spain.
Guillem Anglada-Escude devoted his Ph.D. thesis in astrophysics (2007) at University of Barcelona, Spain to the Gaia Space Astrometry mission of the European Space Agency.
Guillem Anglada-Escudé obtained a postdoctoral fellowship at the Carnegie Institution for Science, where he worked with exoplanet pioneers Alan Boss and Paul Butler.
In 2011, he developed a suite of algorithms which led to unprecedented Doppler precision on red-dwarf stars and applied it to existing datasets. In 2012, he moved to the University of Göttigen and joined forces with Mikko Tuomi to develop global optimization methods for the analysis of time series. Several new potential small planets were identified, including most of the temperate super-Earths around the nearest stars. Some of the claims were not widely accepted by the community and remain controversial. However, their approach was shown to be the most robust one in a double-blind test exercise organized at Yale in 2015. In 2015, Guillem was appointed Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.
Astronomer Guillem Anglada-Escudé took four years to form the team that found Proxima b, the closest Earth-like planet to our solar system. Discovered in August 2016, it orbits the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, 4.2 light years away.
It is slightly larger than Earth and has a temperature range that can accommodate liquid water. In short, it is the closest place to search for life in our nearby intergalactic neighbourhood. "The nearest stars and these red dwarfs, like Proxima, are the places where we have the chance to test these questions," says Anglada-Escudé, 37, a lecturer in astronomy at the Queen Mary University of London.
For years, scientists speculated that a planet lurked near Proxima Centauri, but they had no physical observation to back up the theory. Reams of spectrograph data showed that something was pulling Proxima Centauri back and forth, but nothing could reconcile violent flares with a planet's orbit. The astronomers needed to untangle the star's activity from the signal.
In 2012, Anglada-Escudé devised a way of analysing data to extract more accurate signals from spectrographs. This caught the attention of applied mathematicians at the University of Hertfordshire. Together, they developed a theoretical model of Proxima Centauri; all they needed was evidence to support it, as well as access to more historic data and telescopes on the ground.
So Anglada-Escudé and his colleagues set out to find Proxima Centauri enthusiasts around the world for a campaign they called Pale Red Dot. For 60 nights in 2016, the 31-person team obtained new data from the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (Harps) spectrograph in Chile. They did this while simultaneously monitoring Proxima Centauri's activity on a series of photometric telescopes. To their delight, the scientists clearly saw the planet's orbital period in the signal. Thanks to the telescope observations, they could rule out interference from the star.
Next, Anglada-Escudé plans to mobilise more researchers to help search for exoplanets around 15 other nearby stars.
Guillem Anglada Escudé believes in extraterrestrial life.
Quotations: "Within the next two or three years, we should be able to detect a lot of Proxima-like planets."
Physical Characteristics:
Hair color - brown
Eyes color- brown
There is no information about his personal life.