Lars Lindberg Christensen

Lars Lindberg Christensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark October 18, 1970. He was educated at the University of Copenhagen and worked at Tycho Brahe Planetarium from 1989 to 1999. Here he participated in the Tycho Brahe Expedition 1998 in Greenland to search for a bright meteorite that fell December 9, 1997. In 1999 he was employed by ESO and is currently a science communicator heading its education and Public Outreach Department in Munich, Germany. He is responsible for public outreach and education for the VLT, La Silla, for ESO’s part of ALMA, E-ELT and ESA’s part of the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Press Office. He is Press Officer for the IAU and manager of the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator project. In 2007-2010 he served as manager of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Secretariat.

Lars Lindberg Christensen has mainly published in popular science communication and its theory, written communication, technical communication and scientific communication. He has produced material for different media such as planetarium shows, laser shows, slide shows, web, print, TV and radio. He is married and has a son.