Reinhard Genzel is unfortunately unable to attend. The lecture will be broadcasted live in the Audimax. The audience will still have the opportunity to ask questions.

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Prof. Dr. Reinhard Genzel is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Professor at the Graduate School for Physics and Astronomy at the University of California in Berkeley. He is one of the world's leading researchers in the field of infrared and submillimeter astronomy. His research focuses on experimental astrophysics, black holes, galactic nuclei, galaxy evolution, star formation and extragalactic astrophysics. In 2020, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, together with the US astronomer Andrea Ghez, for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.