Thomas Bührke

born in 1956, is a German science journalist and astrophysicist. He studied physics in Göttingen and Heidelberg, where he completed his doctoral degree at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy in 1986. In 1990, he started to work as a free author and science journalist, among others for the »Süddeutsche Zeitung«, the »Welt«, the »Berliner Zeitung« and »Spektrum der Wissenschaft«. His main subjects are physics, astrophysics and space flight.