Eva Katharina Grebel | |
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 Eva Grebel in 2014 | |
| Born | 1966 (age 58–59) |
| Education | University of Bonn (Diplom 1991, Ph.D. 1995) |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn |
| Known for | Studies of stellar populations and galaxy formation |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
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| Thesis | Stellar population studies in nearby galaxies (1995) |
Eva K. Grebel is a Germanastronomer. Since 2007 she has been co-director of theAstronomisches Rechen-Institut at theUniversity of Heidelberg in Germany. Eva Grebel is an expert in the study ofstellar populations andgalaxy formation.
Grebel's research is focused on thestars of theMilky Way galaxy and other members of thelocal group of galaxies, including theLarge andSmall Magellanic Clouds as well as nearbydwarf galaxies. Grebel's studies concern the chemical evolution and structure of galaxies,star formation and the properties of the variousstellar populations, with the aim of reconstructing the origin and evolution of the Milky Way and othergalaxies.[1][2][3][4]
Grebel studiedphysics andastronomy at theUniversity of Bonn, obtaining herDiplom degree in physics in 1991. For part of the same year, she was a summer student at theSpace Telescope Science Institute inBaltimore.
She took up graduate studies at theUniversity of Bonn, spending two years in 1992–1994 as a student fellow at theEuropean Southern Observatory'sLa Silla Observatory inChile. She obtained her PhD in 1995 with distinction. Her dissertation topic was "Stellar population studies in nearby galaxies".[5][6][7]
Subsequently, Grebel took at postdoc positions at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995–1996), atWürzburg University (1996–1997) and at theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz (1997–1998). She won aHubble Fellowship in 1998, joining theUniversity of Washington inSeattle as a Hubble fellow 1998–2000.[5][6]
In 2000, Grebel returned to Germany as a research group leader at theMax Planck Institute for Astronomy inHeidelberg. In 2003, she accepted an appointment to the chair ofobservational astronomy at the Astronomical Institute of theUniversity of Basel, as the successor ofGustav Tammann. From 2004–2007, she served as the institute's director.[5][6]
In 2007, Grebel was appointed a full professor of astronomy atHeidelberg University, where she also became one of two directors of theAstronomisches Rechen-Institut.[5][6] At that time, Grebel was the only female full professor for astronomy in Germany.[8]
Grebel is the chair of theDFG-Collaborative Research Center 881 "The Milky Way System" at the University of Heidelberg[9] and president of commission H1 "The Local Universe" of theInternational Astronomical Union.[2]
