First European Interstellar Symposium 2024

Coryn Bailer-Jones is a staff scientist and group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. He works on machine learning and statistical data analysis methods for inference in large astronomical data sets, and leads a group working on the development and application of these for the ESA Gaia mission. He also teaches physics, astronomy, and statistics at Heidelberg University. His interests include, among other things, exoplanets, nearby stars, the impact of astronomical phenomena on the Earth, and the physics of interstellar travel.