Hans-Walter Rix

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Hans-Walter Rix is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg; he is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Upon completion of his PhD at the University of Arizona (Tucsan) he was awarded a Hubble Fellowship, which he took to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. There, he worked on some of the first Hubble Space Telescope data on gravitational lensing. His fields of research are galaxy evolution and galaxy structure, which he investigates by means of spectroscopic and imaging surveys, currently focusing on the Milky Way as a "galaxy model organism". Rix is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences, the Leopoldina.