Pierre Cox
Pierre Cox is a French astronomer. Born in
Paris to a Dutch composer father and a Belgian pianist mother, he led a musically-oriented childhood from which he rebelled at age 17 to study
physics at the
Université de Paris-Sud. He is known for his research in the area of millimeter and infrared observations of star-forming regions, evolved stars, and high-redshift galaxies. He has published over 250 refereed papers with more than 22,000 citations in total.
Cox is currently a Director of Research (Directeur de Recherche) (DR1) at CNRS, working at the
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. From 2013 - 2018, Cox was the Director of
ALMA, a position requiring coordinating the efforts of many countries that Cox likened to "being the Secretary General of United Nations". He was previously the Director of the
Institut de radioastronomie millimétrique from 2006 through 2013. Prior to IRAM, he had been an astronomer at the
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, the
Marseille Observatory, and then the
Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, an observatory of the
CNRS at the Université de Paris-Sud in
Orsay.
Pierre's hobbies including drawing and playing piano. He speaks five languages fluently.
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