Guillem Anglada-Escudé (born 1979), is a Spanish

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. In 2016, he led a team of astronomers under the Pale Red Dot campaign, which resulted in the confirmation of the existence of

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, the closest potentially habitable extrasolar planet to Earth, followed by the publication of a peer-reviewed article in ''

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''. In 2017, Anglada-Escudé was named amongst the 100 most influential people according to ''

Time Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ...

'', and one of ''Nature''s top 10 scientists of the year 2016. He is currently a research fellow at

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*https://nai.nasa.gov/directory/anglada-escude-guillem/ *https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guillem_Anglada-Escude {{DEFAULTSORT:Anglada-Escude, Guillem Academics from Catalonia 21st-century Spanish astronomers Spanish astrophysicists Astronomers from Catalonia Planetary scientists Scientists from Barcelona University of Barcelona alumni Academics of Queen Mary University of London Academics of the University of Hertfordshire Academic staff of the University of Göttingen 1979 births Living people