Anthony Brown (scientist): Difference between revisions

| name = Anthony G.A. Brown

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| nationality = Dutch

| doctoral_advisor = <!--(or[[Tim de | doctoral_advisors = )-->Zeeuw]]

| website = <!--{{URL|https://www.exampleuniversiteitleiden.comnl/en/staffmembers/anthony-brown}}-->

'''Anthony Brown''' (born 12 May 1969<ref>{{Cite web |title=Curriculum vitae |url=https://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~pvdwerf/pdf/cv.pdf |website=Leiden University}}</ref>) is ana Dutch astronomer currently working at the [[University of Leiden]] most noted for leading the [[Gaia (spacecraft)|Gaia project's]] Data Processing and Analysis Consortium. He was listed in the 2018 [[Nature's 10]] as one of the ''Ten people who mattered this year'' by the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]].''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07683-5|title=Nature’sNature's 10|website=www.nature.com|language=en|access-date=2019-12-20}}</ref>

Anthony Brown obtained his Master of Science degree ''cum laude'' in Astronomy from the [[University of Leiden]] in 1991, where he also obtained his PhD in 1996 on the topic of the stellar content and evolution of OB associations.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anthony Brown - Leiden University |url=https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/anthony-brown#tab-1 |publisher=University of Leiden |accessdateaccess-date=19 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Anthony Brown |url=https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/gaia-people/anthony-brown |publisher=ESA |accessdateaccess-date=19 December 2019}}</ref> After postdoc positions at Leiden,the [[InstitutoUniversity deof AstronomíaLeiden]], Ensenada,the [[National Astronomical Observatory (Mexico)]], and the [[European Southern Observatory]],|European Garching,Southern Observatory (Germany)]], he rejoined Leidenthe [[University of Leiden]] first as a research associate from 2001 to 2006, and then as faculty member.

His involvement with the [[Gaia (spacecraft)|Gaia mission]] started in 1997 with contributions to the science case for the mission. As a member of the photometric and classification working groups, he contributed to the optimization of the photometric filter system, and has been a member of the Gaia science team since 2006. He was appointed Chair of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) Executive in 2012, and is the corresponding author of Gaia Data Release 1 and 2.<ref>{{Cite journal|lastlast1=Gaia Collaboration|first=|last2=Brown|first2=A. G. A.|last3=Vallenari|first3=A.|last4=Prusti|first4=T.|last5=de Bruijne|first5=J. H.J.|last6=Mignard|first6=F.|last7=Drimmel|first7=R.|last8=Babusiaux|first8=C.|last9=Bailer-Jones|first9=C. A.L.|last10=Bastian|first10=U.|last11=Biermann|first11=M.|date=November 2016|title=Gaia Data Release 1: Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties|url=http://www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629512|journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics|volume=595|pages=A2|doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201629512|arxiv=1609.04172 |bibcode=2016A&A...595A...2G |issn=0004-6361|via=|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|lastlast1=Brown|firstfirst1=A. G. A.|last2=Vallenari|first2=A.|last3=Prusti|first3=T.|last4=Bruijne|first4=J. H. J. de|last5=Babusiaux|first5=C.|last6=Bailer-Jones|first6=C. a. L.|last7=Biermann|first7=M.|last8=Evans|first8=D. W.|last9=Eyer|first9=L.|last10=Jansen|first10=F.|last11=Jordi|first11=C.|date=2018-08-01|title=Gaia Data Release 2 - Summary of the contents and survey properties|url=https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/08/aa33051-18/aa33051-18.html|journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics|language=en|volume=616|pages=A1|doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201833051|arxiv=1804.09365 |bibcode=2018A&A...616A...1G |issn=0004-6361|doi-access=free}}</ref>

He delivered the prestigious Spitzer Lectures at Princeton University in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anthony Brown gives prestigious lecture series in Princeton - Leiden University |url=https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2019/05/anthony-brown-gives-prestigious-lecture-series-in-princeton |publisher=Leiden University |accessdateaccess-date=19 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Spitzer Lectures 2019 |url=https://web.astro.princeton.edu/events/spitzer-lectures |publisher=Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University |accessdateaccess-date=19 December 2019}}</ref>

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