# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josef-aschbacher
# Generated: 2026-09-01T20:17:25.472Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josef-aschbacher"
name: "Josef Aschbacher"
slug: "josef-aschbacher"
description: "Josef Aschbacher is Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), a position he has held since 1 March 2021. His international career in space combines more than 35 years' of experience at ESA, the European Commission, the Austrian Space Agency, the Asian Institute of Technology and the University of Innsbruck."
tagline: "Austrian space researcher and manager, director general of ESA"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josef_Aschbacher.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1962-07-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.86
  momentum:             6.028196402527954
  historical:           9.718692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/AschbacherJosef"
    handle:    "AschbacherJosef"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10367191/"
    handle:    "nm10367191"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Aschbacher"
    title: "Josef Aschbacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Aschbacher"
    title: "Josef Aschbacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Aschbacher"
    title: "Josef Aschbacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Aschbacher"
    title: "Josef Aschbacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Aschbacher"
    title: "Josef Aschbacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Aschbacher"
    title: "Josef Aschbacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Aschbacher"
    title: "Josef Aschbacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Aschbacher"
    title: "Josef Aschbacher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "约瑟夫·阿施巴赫尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4764669"
    title: "Josef Aschbacher"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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