Anthony Brown (born 12 May 1969[1]) is a Dutch astronomer currently working at the
University of Leiden most noted for leading the
Gaia project's Data Processing and Analysis Consortium. He was listed in the 2018
Nature's 10 as one of the Ten people who mattered this year by the scientific journal Nature.[2]
His involvement with the
Gaia mission started in 1997 with contributions to the science case for the mission. As a member of the photometric and classification working groups, he contributed to the optimization of the photometric filter system, and has been a member of the Gaia science team since 2006. He was appointed Chair of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) Executive in 2012, and is the corresponding author of Gaia Data Release 1 and 2.[5][6]
He delivered the prestigious Spitzer Lectures at Princeton University in 2019.[7][8]
Selected papers
Brown, Anthony GA, et al. "Gaia Data Release 1-Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties." Astronomy & Astrophysics 595 (2016): A2.