10/09/2025

Rolf Kudritzki is a force of nature in Hawaiian guise. He has been an incredible and inspiring powerhouse of the ORIGINS Cluster and especially the MIAPbP for over a decade and his enthusiasm and open-mindedness continue to enrich our work and lives. 

His work on blue supergiants, stellar winds, and stellar metallicities in galaxies established extragalactic stellar astronomy as a new research field and shaped our understanding of stellar evolution and the universe at large. With his extraordinary career that bridges both theoretical insights and observational expertise,…