The American astrophysicist Professor Sheperd S. Doeleman (https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/sdoeleman) will be the recipient of the Prix Georges Lemaître 2023.
Founding director of the Event Horizon Telescope, Shepherd S. Doeleman led the international team of more than 200 researchers that successfully built and synchronized a global network of radiotelescopes to form a virtual telescope the size of Earth. The team captured the world's first image of a supermassive black hole in 2019.
He will talk about "Imaging supermassive black holes on horizon scales”on monday 27 march at CYCL01 (3.30 pm), more details can be found on the indico page (https://agenda.irmp.ucl.ac.be/event/4909/).