Richard Anderson is head of the Stellar Standard Candles and Distances research group at EPFL’s Institute of Physics. He received his PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Geneva. Prior to his current position at EPFL, he worked at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA from 2014 to 2017, funded by an SNSF Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship. From 2017 to 2020, he was an independent Research Fellow at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching b. München, Germany.
