Alexander Gerst
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5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,724x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,691x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,163x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,106x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,563x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1976-05-03 ) 3 May 1976 (age 50) , Künzelsau , Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
- Occupation
- Geophysicist
- Awards
- Bernd Rendel Prize
- Status
- Active
- Time in space
- 362 days, 1 hour, 50 minutes
- Selection
- 2009 ESA Group
- Total eva time
- 6 hours, 13 minutes
- Missions
- Soyuz TMA-13M ( Expedition 40 / 41 ) Soyuz MS-09 ( Expedition 56 / 57 )
- Website
- alexandergerst .esa .int
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- Official website
- alexandergerst.esa.int
- Image
- Alexander Gerst - Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory 1.jpg
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Alexander Gerst (born 3 May 1976 in Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg) is a German European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and geophysicist, who was selected in 2009 to take part in space training. He was part of the International Space Station Expedition 40 and 41 from May to November 2014. Gerst returned to space on 6 June 2018, as part of Expedition 56/57. He was the commander of the International Space Station. He returned to Earth on 20 December 2018. After the end of his second mission and before being surpassed by Luca Parmitano in 2020, he held the record for most time in space of any active ESA astronaut (362 days), succeeding Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, and German ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, who formally held the record for the longest time in space for any active or retired ESA astronaut.
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