Bruno Leibundgut

Bruno Leibundgut ( born April 1, 1960 in Basel ) is a Swiss astronomer.

Life and work

Bruno Leibundgut attended the grammar school in Basel to Matura 1979. Afterwards he studied at the University of Basel, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy and received his doctorate there in 1988. Since 1993 he is a staff member of the European Southern Observatory.

He was known especially for new discoveries in the field of supernovae. He was a member of the High-Z Supernova Search Team and participated in the production of VLT.

From 2008 until March 2013 he served as scientific director of the European Southern Observatory. Since then, he uses a sabbatical to travel through Europe and to give lectures on the subject as origin of the elements or structure of the universe.

Writings (selection )

• Light Curves of Supernovae Type I ( full text ) (= dissertation)
• With Hildebrandt, W.: From twilight to highlight - the physics of supernovae. Springer, Berlin 2003
• With Goobar A: Supernova Cosmology: Legacy and Future, ( preprint ), 2011
• With Graur. O.: Type -Ia supernova Council to Redshift 2.4 from CLASH: the Cluster Lensing and Supernova survey with Hubble, 2014