# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sami-solanki
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:40:56.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sami-solanki"
name: "Sami Solanki"
slug: "sami-solanki"
description: "Sami Khan Solanki is director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), director of the Sun-Heliosphere Department of MPS, a scientific member of the Max Planck Society, and a Chair of the International Max Planck Research School on Physical Processes in the Solar System and Beyond at the Universities of Braunschweig and Göttingen."
tagline: "Swiss space physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sami_Solanki.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1958-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.93
  momentum:             3.073593073593073
  historical:           6.144205333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "سمیع سولنکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سامي سولانكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "سامى سولانكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Solanki"
    title: "Sami Solanki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Solanki"
    title: "Sami Solanki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Solanki"
    title: "Sami Solanki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%86%DA%AA%D9%8A"
    title: "سمي سولنڪي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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