# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-rgen-christensen-dalsgaard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:05:31.785Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/j-rgen-christensen-dalsgaard"
name: "Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard"
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description: "Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard is a Danish astronomer at Aarhus University in Denmark. He specializes in asteroseismology and helioseismology. He has made significant contributions to both fields, including predicting the oscillation of Sun-like stars in 1983. He is the head of \"Rumudvalget\" and the Stellar Astrophysics Centre (SAC) supported by the Danish National Research Foundation. He is co-investigator on the Kepler mission and, with Hans Kjeldsen in Aarhus, leads the 500+ researchers in the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC). KASC is responsible for the asteroseismology component of the Kepler mission. Christensen-Dalsgaard has published several papers on this subject. He was also previously the president of Commission 27 of the International Astronomical Union."
tagline: "Danish astronomer"
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birthDate: "1950-10-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump