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Lars Lindberg Christensen - Homepage

 

 

I work as Head of Communicationfor the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Telescope.

I have been lucky to work with a wide range of activities centred on communication of astronomy to the public. Here is my own little Top-10 list of favourite achievements:

  1. Writing The Hands-on Guide for Science Communicators, Springer New York, 2006, ISBN 0387263241
  2. Writing Lysfænomener i Naturen, Høst & Søn, 1998, ISBN 8714294621
  3. Being Press Officer for International Astronomical Union in a period the IAU became more known than ever before due to the re-classification of dwarf planet Pluto. Read more about the work during this hectic period of the 2006 IAU General Assembly here.
  4. Being expedition scientist on the Tycho Brahe Expedition 1998 to Greenland where we searched for the famous Greenland meteorite. Read one of the diaries or Wayt Gibbs nice article in Scientific American. See also a few pictures here.
  5. Participating in the Kap York Meterorite Expedition 1994. This expedition inspired (in part I guess) Peter Høeg when he wrote his famous novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
  6. Receiving the Tycho Brahe Medal in 2005
  7. Directing the movie Hubble - 15 Years of Discovery
  8. Writing the book Hubble - 15 Years of Discovery, Springer New York, 2006, ISBN 0387285997 (also in Finnish, German, Portuguese)
  9. Producing the lasershow Ambient LaserTrance in the Dome 1994
  10. Writing my Master's Thesis: Compund Redshift Catalogues and their Application to Redshift Distortions of the Two-point Correlation Function. At one point in 1996 I had the largest collection of galaxy redshifts in the world...