Tim de Zeeuw

Pieter Timotheus " Tim " de Zeeuw ( born 1956 in sleen, Netherlands) is a Dutch astronomer specializing areas of the origins, structure and dynamics of galaxies.

Training

His higher education began at the University of Leiden, where he earned degrees in mathematics in 1976 and 1977 in Astronomy in the year. He then graduated cum laude in suffering with a PhD in astronomy in 1984.

Career

After living in the United States at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and Caltech, he returned in 1990 to the Netherlands, where he was appointed by the University of Leiden as Professor of Theoretical Astronomy.

In 2003, the Leiden Observatory became the scientific director named, and since September 2007 he has been acting Director-General of the European Southern Observatory.

Some awards received by Professor de Zeeuw at this time:

• Descartes -Huygens Prize, 2001
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Lyon, 2003
• An asteroid was named after him on 19 February 2006: ( 10970 ) de Zeeuw
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago, June 2007

In 2010 he received the Brouwer Award by the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society.

Private life

He is married to the Ewine van Dishoeck.

Gallery

Speech on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the ESO by Tim de Zeeuw.