Bruno Leibundgut

[1] He was a member of the High-z Supernova Search Team and participated in the planning, development and start of the operations of the Very Large Telescope.

Leibundgut received his doctorate at the University of Basel in 1988 under the supervision of Gustav Andreas Tammann.

He was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard working with Robert Kirshner and at Berkeley with Alex Filippenko.

He has had various roles such as deputy programme scientist for the VLT, head of the user support group in Garching and Director for Science.

[2] He was the Very Large Telescope programme scientist from 2015 to 2022 and has been re-appointed director for science at ESO in 2023.