# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raphael-liegeois
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:02:51.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raphael-liegeois"
name: "Raphaël Liégeois"
slug: "raphael-liegeois"
description: "Raphaël Liégeois is a Belgian-Luxembourgish biomedical engineer and astronaut. Liégeois completed a doctorate at the University of Liège on the functioning of the human brain from 2011 to 2015, and then held post-doctoral appointments at the National University of Singapore and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He has held a teaching and research position at the University of Geneva and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne since 2021. He was selected as a member of the 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group."
tagline: "Belgian neuroscientist and astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ESA_astronaut_announcement_Class_of_2022_(52519694939).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1988-01-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.58
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.046476
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Raph_Astro"
    handle:    "Raph_Astro"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/raphael_astro/"
    handle:    "raphael_astro"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rapha%C3%ABl-li%C3%A9geois-0b3a90a4/"
    handle:    "raphaël-liégeois-0b3a90a4"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapha%C3%ABl_Li%C3%A9geois"
    title: "Raphaël Liégeois"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapha%C3%ABl_Li%C3%A9geois"
    title: "Raphaël Liégeois"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapha%C3%ABl_Li%C3%A9geois"
    title: "Raphaël Liégeois"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%AF"
    title: "ラファエル・リエジョワ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapha%C3%ABl_Li%C3%A9geois"
    title: "Raphaël Liégeois"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89641962"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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