# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/guillem-anglada-escude
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:42:14.584Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/guillem-anglada-escude"
name: "Guillem Anglada-Escudé"
slug: "guillem-anglada-escude"
description: "Guillem Anglada-Escudé is a Spanish astronomer. In 2016, he led a team of astronomers under the Pale Red Dot campaign, which resulted in the confirmation of the existence of Proxima Centauri b, the closest potentially habitable extrasolar planet to Earth, followed by the publication of a peer-reviewed article in Nature.\nIn 2017, Anglada-Escudé was named amongst the 100 most influential people according to Time, and one of Nature's top 10 scientists of the year 2016.\nHe is currently a research fellow at Institut de Ciències de l'Espai."
tagline: "Professor of astrophysics at the University of London"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1979"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump