# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dimitar-sasselov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:38:49.576Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dimitar-sasselov"
name: "Dimitar Sasselov"
slug: "dimitar-sasselov"
description: "Dimitar D. Sasselov is a Bulgarian astronomer based in the United States. He is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative. In 2002, Sasselov led a team that discovered the most distant planet in the Milky Way known at the time."
tagline: "Bulgarian astronomer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-08-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.273146666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitar_Sasselov"
    title: "Dimitar Sasselov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "ديميتار ساسيلوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8A%D1%80_%D0%A1%D1%8A%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2_(%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC)"
    title: "Димитър Съселов (астроном)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dimitar_Sasselov"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitar_Sasselov"
    title: "Dimitar Sasselov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%AA%E7%B1%B3%E5%A1%94%E7%88%BE%C2%B7%E8%96%A9%E5%A1%9E%E7%BE%85%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "迪米塔爾·薩塞羅夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5277447"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump