# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tim-de-zeeuw
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:30:16.621Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tim-de-zeeuw"
name: "Tim de Zeeuw"
slug: "tim-de-zeeuw"
description: "Pieter Timotheus \"Tim\" de Zeeuw is a Dutch astronomer specializing in the formation, structure and dynamics of galaxies. From 2007 to 2017 he was the director general of European Southern Observatory. He is married to astronomer Ewine van Dishoeck. In May 2022, Leiden University suspended him after an internal review concluded that over several years he repeatedly belittled and insulted women in public and abused his position of power as a professor by threatening to damage their scientific careers; and that in addition to intimidation and inappropriate behavior there was \"a component of sexual harassment\". The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics announced that they will no longer work with him and the European Southern Observatory banned him from accessing their premises."
tagline: "Dutch astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ESO_Tim_de_Zeeuw.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.28
  momentum:             15.02288329519451
  historical:           7.615768
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "蒂姆·德泽乌"
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    title: "Tim de Zeeuw"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_de_Zeeuw"
    title: "Tim de Zeeuw"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_de_Zeeuw"
    title: "Tim de Zeeuw"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_de_Zeeuw"
    title: "Tim de Zeeuw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%96%D0%BC_%D0%B4%D0%B5_%D0%97%D0%B5%D1%83"
    title: "Тім де Зеу"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump