Lars Lindberg Christensen

Lars Lindberg Christensen (born 18 October 1970) is a science communicator and author of a dozen books on astronomy and science communication translated to ten languages.

For the shipowner and whaling magnate, see Lars Christensen. For the poet and novelist, see Lars Saabye Christensen.
Lars Lindberg Christensen
Lars Lindberg Christensen in 2021
Born18 October 1970 (1970-10-18) (age 53)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Alma materUniversity of Copenhagen
Occupations
Employers
AwardsKlumpke-Roberts Award (2021)

He had a long career with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and is employed by U.S. National Science Foundation's NOIRLab and the International Astronomical Union (IAU). As press officer for the latter he was leading the media communication of the 2006 IAU reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.

He leads the Portal to the Universe project, and was the initiator of the ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator project. He leads the Hubblecast and ESOcast video podcasts and initiated the Astronomy Visualization Metadata project, that later became the Virtual Astronomy Multimedia Project. He has received various awards including the Danish Tycho Brahe Medal and the Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

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