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Autorenporträt
Thierry Courvoisier is professor for astronomy at the Department of Astronomy of the University of Geneva and director of the ISDC, Data Centre for Astrophysics. He made pioneering contributions to the research on quasars and their accretion flows, most notably on 3C 273.Prof. Courvoisier is the President of the European Astronomical Society, President of the Swiss Academy of Sciences, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review. He has been teaching courses on high-energy astrophysics at the University of Geneva since the the early 1990s.Thierry is a keen sailor and crossed the Atlantic twice on his boat Cérès.
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