Hi! I'm Alex Eggemeier.

I’m a theoretical astrophysicist at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy, University of Bonn. I work with the biggest maps of the cosmic large-scale structure to understand our Universe’s past, present, and future.

How did I get here?

I’m originally from a tiny place called Osterledde, in the countryside near Münster and not far from the Teutoburg Forest. For my undergraduate studies in physics, I first moved to Göttingen — a beautiful university town in the heart of Germany, famous for past residents such as Carl Friedrich Gauß, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg, and known as one of the birthplaces of quantum mechanics. There, I took my first steps into cosmology while working on my Bachelor’s thesis. Through the Erasmus programme, I had afterwards the chance to study for a year at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen — the second birthplace of quantum mechanics — before returning to Göttingen to complete my Master’s thesis. I then received a PhD scholarship in the UK, which I spent mostly at the University of Sussex in Brighton, with a six-month research stay at NYU in New York City. I obtained my PhD in 2018 with a thesis on the large-scale clustering of galaxies. After all that excitement, I moved to the calmer but not any less lovely North of England for my first postdoc at the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University. Finally, in 2021, I joined the University of Bonn as the Argelander Fellow.

That’s nice, but what am I actually doing?